The Cops 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...

Racing Victoria reports: French star  Trevieres has suffered a fracture to near fore cannon. Out of the Spring Carnival

The Gauch cops it! Popular Darren Gauci has a suspected fractured vertebra after a crunching 'through the rails' incident in the fourth race at Mornington yesterday. Gauci's mount Gothic Armageddon...

An underarm from the Kiwis? They've suspended Nash Rawiller after his winning ride on Atomic Force in the Grp 1 Railway Stakes at Ellerslie, finding him guilty of careless riding at the 300m. He's ...

Another suspension...Danny Nikolic has copped a suspension for causing interference on Masthead in the first race at Sat's Moonee Valley meeting. He's out for 10 meetings. He can ride again on Nov 2.

Jockey Nathan Cumberland has been suspended for eight months for testing positive to a prohibited substance. Stewards stood him down from riding on Dec 23 after a positive result from a urine sampl...

The washup...Nothing too exciting has emerged from the Shane Dye kerfuffle in Mauritius...He's been suspended for a week and fined 100,000 Mauritian rupees ($3900) over his handling of a horse whic...