The Believer 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...

Tony Gollan has become a believer in miracles.Somehow, the Toowoomba trainer will be at the Gold Coast on Saturday to saddle up four runners including Spirit Of Boom in the Magic Millions Guineas a...

LEE Freedman's decision two years ago to get some stable clients to buy tried horses in England and aim them at Australia's staying events had some promising results in its first year, but yesterda...

The overwhelming first impression of the Hong Kong Exchanges Challenge Cup (1,000m) at Happy Valley is of a race stacked with pace and that might open the way for an upset from a horse who is not...

When it comes to horseracing, most of us have been searching for a Holy Grail of sorts. That special system or approach that will lift us to the level we wish to attain. Some of us have found w...

PUZZLED by  Almalad ’s failure in yesterday’s Caulfield Guineas, Gai Waterhouse will wait a week before deciding if the colt will start in the Cox Plate. What has perplexed Waterhouse even more i...

Perth trainer Fred Kersley is a firm believer in home ground advantage and has booked Shane Scriven to ride Marasco in the Doomben 10,000.Scriven goes into the race next weekend on a high having cl...