Swiftly 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...

The whip rules controversy is moving swiftly to crisis point...A number of well-known jockeys are pressing for industrial action. The jockeys want the poorly-framed new rules to be thrown out. They...

TABCORP moved swiftly last night to water down the controversy arising from its announcement this week that NSW TAB punters would benefit from reduced commissions on selected feature spring events,...

THE decision to rest Black Caviar this spring instead of chasing purses and bonuses of more than $2 million is a wise one, as should the pending announcement on her racetrack future, reports Andrew...

Champion sire Galileo added an 81st stakes-winner to his tally when the Robert Hickmott trained import Muir (GB) took out the Group II SAJC Adelaide Cup at Morphettville on Monday, reports Breednet...

With all the justified hype surrounding Black Caviar in recent months, it is too easily forgotten that not so long ago, Australians were standing and applauding another bona fide champion of the tu...

Bookmakers have reacted swiftly to Shocking's win in the Makybe Diva Stakes winding him in to $8 to win back to back Melbourne Cups.After weights were released last week, Shocking was the $12 favou...