The Final Word 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...

Thursday's Ballarat meeting has been transferred to the Geelong Synthetic track. Heavy rain throughout Victoria over 24 hours, much of it in the Ballarat area, made the track unsafe for racing.

This is interesting - the track that's supposed to be the saviour of washed-out turf meetings has fallen victim itself...Yes, Friday's Geelong synthetic meeting has had to be switched to Pakenham. ...

Nice try but...The synthetic track failed to save Thursday's Geelong meeting after sloppy conditions forced stewards to call a halt after the first race. The meeting had been switched from Ballarat...

It's all synthetic...Next Wednesday's scheduled Sandown Betfair Park meeting is to be transferred to the Geelong synthetic track and that means there'll be three consecutive days of racing on the G...

GEELONG SYNTHETIC Acceptances on Friday 27th August, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.07 HARDI...

GEELONG SYNTHETIC Acceptances on Tuesday 3rd August, 2010TAB MEETING. Rail: True Position Entire Circuit--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1-12.30 GALLE...