The Drover 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...

She's on the way back...Brisbane winter carnival star Scarlett Lady will kick-start her Melbourne Cup campaign in the Grp 1 Hawkes Bay Challenge Stakes 1400m at Hastings at the end of August. The f...

Queen's Cup winner Moudre will kick off his Melbourne Cup campaign in Saturday's P B Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer Ciaron Maher said the gelding was ready to resume having had two jump outs,...

Stewards must be getting concerned over the Gai Waterhouse stable's battle to patch up Glencadam Gold for the Melbourne Cup. They don't want any final acceptor to be suddenly scratched due to injur...

Puissance De Lune ($8) heads a strong contingent of Australian-trained gallopers  

Mornington trainer Matt Laurie is hopeful rather than confident The Counterfeiter can turn the tables on Grand Britannia at Flemington on Saturday.The Robbie Laing-trained Grand Britannia overcame ...

It was sad to see trainer Rex Lipp pull the pin on Star Shiraz's spring campaign in Melbourne. But it was the right thing to do. The Sequalo 3yo filly went to Melbourne carrying high hopes of mak...