The Best Bad Boy 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...

How can we define what is "simple" and what isn't when it comes to betting strategies? To begin with, I would say that most of us would have some features of our betting that could do with an oil...

How can we define what is "simple" and what isn't when it comes to betting strategies? To begin with, I would say that most of us would have some features of our betting that could do with an oil...

How can we define what is "simple" and what isn't when it comes to betting strategies? To begin with, I would say that most of us would have some features of our betting that could do with an oil...

Trainer Patrick Payne will have a second-up shot at Monday's Christmas Stakes with Cellarmaster even though he believes the Listed race is slightly short of his best distance.The Dubawi four-year-o...

In my younger days, I once worked on a building site in England. I was doing the time-honoured 'Aussie boy goes back to the Old Dart' routine (and I had the time of my life). Anyway, the foreman s...

Beaudesert trainer Ben Ahrens will never forget his first runner at Randwick after Spechenka claimed the Group Three Summer Cup in course record time.The five-year-old beat the odds to even make it...