The Big House 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...

September 17: Generic RatingsThe amazing field assembled in the Underwood Stakes this Saturday provides a vehicle for yours truly to start test driving my ratings. Based on what I sent yesterday th...

September 14: Generic RatingsAs you know I am compiling a set of Generic Ratings where I allot a figure to each horse and all that has to be done is to subtract the allotted weight given by the off...

Last week I listed 23 horses who are forming my "Generic Ratings" list and at the end of the blog I asked you to rate them into your order. It is important to realize the order is arbitrary at this...

Three year olds are always difficult to rate as often their natural improvement varies so greatly from runner to runner. In the process of setting up my own list of Generic Ratings I need all the h...

Sometime back I mentioned a term I call "Generic Ratings" which is all about assigning a figure to each horse relative to its ability. The general premise is that you subtract the weight to be carr...

The generic ratings I am developing is fairly well set for the sprinters as there are really only a handful of serious sprints left this spring and although there will be different results it will ...