The Beast 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...

WESTERN Australia breeder Gray Williamson always had an opinion of an orphan colt by his new stallion Oratorio, but such was his temperament that when it came to branding him, he was given 66 over ...

There was a confident ring in the air that Irish mare Profound Beauty could give trainer Dermot Weld his third Melbourne Cup victory when she was backed to win more than $3.4 million at the Call of...

Were you, like me, wondering why Jamie Mott let Vada Rosso loose with a 50 lens lead at Warrnambool on Tuesday? It was suicidal stuff and it was no surprise when Vada Rosso stopped as if shot in th...

from NEIL FRANKLYNXANADU3f : Trainer : Ken & Bev Kelso3 starts : 3 winsWin distance range : 1200m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : Good : DeadThis filly could be something special. She's had three ...

Every Race Tells a Tale.áI was surprised by the failures of both the fillies I was hoping to learn from yesterday (see the previous posting). La Etoile was cluttered away and it was an odd ride, wh...

Though last week I trumpeted the virtues of knowing when to draw the line on a day's punting, that notion is a far more difficult beast when applied to a horse's overall campaign. How often do you ...