The Mason 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...

Ben Mason can vouch for training racehorses being a fickle caper.Two days after preparing his first metropolitan winner with Waranga at Eagle Farm earlier this month, Mason broke his left leg which...

Bush trainer Barry Henry is confident he can pull off a masterful performance when former Victorian mare Pray For Me makes her Brisbane debut at Eagle Farm on Monday.Pray For Me was formerly traine...

Australia’s only representative for the Hong Kong International Races, Linton, flew to Hong Kong yesterday, reports Racing Network. He will have 13 days to prepare for the $US2.2 million Hong Kong...

Unbeaten steeplechaser Pentiffic takes the next step towards the Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan in April when he runs on the flat at Sandown on Wednesday.The Pentire six-year-old, winner of the Hiske...

Unbeaten steeplechaser Pentiffic takes the next step towards the Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan in April when he runs on the flat at Sandown on Wednesday.The Pentire six-year-old, winner of the Hiske...

Sue Grills remains adamant favourite Border Rebel is not weighted to win Wednesday's $130,000 Ramornie Handicap at Grafton.The brilliant sprinter has 60kg, a wide barrier in 11 and a host of smart ...