The Centaurian 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...

This is the second article in a series in which noted US expert Joe Takach talks about the upside and downside of racing and betting. In the first part of the series, Joe posed a series of questio...

This is the second article in a series in which noted US expert Joe Takach talks about the upside and downside of racing and betting. In the first part of the series, Joe posed a series of questio...

Jockey Chris Munce is hoping to play a major part in the spring carnival action in Melbourne after fulfilling commitments in Sydney.Munce, who won the 1998 Melbourne Cup on Jezabeel and last year's...

The internationalisation of racing was evident less than 24 hours after the Melbourne Cup when French trainer Mikel Delzangles was the only one of the winning Melbourne Cup team left in Australia.J...

More claims about the Danny Nikolic case...The Sunday Age reports that police have found closed-circuit TV footage of a relative of Danny Nikolic collecting winnings on a race that the disgraced jo...

UNLIKE his son, Chad, internationally-travelled jockey Glyn Schofield will be going on a diet this week to ride West Australian Guineas winner King Saul in Saturday's Kingston Town Stakes at Ascot,...