Superstitious Horse

Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...

Track conditions and weight are the two Australian horse racing form factors most punters skim over — "the in-a-hurry punters of modern day racing", as Richard Hartley Jnr put it in Practical Punti...

Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, half the field circled, and still no idea which one to back. Writing in Practical Punting Magazine, Richard Ha...

Most of a Saturday card is not worth studying — which is why Australian horse racing form study starts with picking the race, not the horse. Writing in Practical Punting in June 2000, Richard Ha...

Before you rate a single horse, Australian horse racing form study starts with a question about the race itself: is it even worth analysing? Writing in Practical Punting in May 2000, Richard Hartle...

Wow, that was a short comeback...Gai Waterhouse's dream machine Amelia's Dream broke down in her near foreleg during an exhibition gallop at Rosehill on Saturday...and it was the same leg in which ...

Zac Purton took advantage of Joao Moreira's absence to draw another two wins clear at the top of the jockeys' championship, and he feels there could be another win in store for one of his winners,...

It won't be hard spotting Norm Hilton in the Caulfield crowd if he wins Saturday's Group One Toorak Handicap with Queenslander Poor Judge.He'll be the one wearing the big black Akubra hat, cheering...

Jockey Brad Pengelly gave Queensland's rising star Albert The Fat the thumbs up for a Sydney spring campaign following the sprinter's rousing victory at Doomben.Albert The Fat was ridden coolly in ...

Last month, we looked at the psychological pressures of "negative recency" and "utility" and how they affect the average gambler. We tried to highlight how these factors may influence you uncons...

Young trainer Eden Petrie expects to be either a hero or villain after giving his casting vote in favour of Brad Pengelly to partner spring hopeful Albert The Fat in the Clean Domain Handicap at Do...