The Muscle 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...

There are growing concerns that boom filly Atlantic Jewel may not race for another 9 to 12 months. Apparently, her conditions has improved since a suspected hamstring injury was discovered, but vet...

So You Think and his trainer Bart Cummings were the headline acts of the spring for reasons of sadness as well as joy.Cummings' health was a major concern and the 82-year-old was hospitalised with ...

Magic Millions aspirants Schiffer and Top Drop continue to please trainer Gerald Ryan with Queensland's weather his only concern over the next couple of weeks.With floods ravaging Rockhampton in ce...

Prepare yourself for the winter! As you read this in the merry month of April, the sun may well be shining. In a couple of months it's far more likely to be cold and wet (well, maybe only a bit we...

Heavy rain wreaked havoc on the Easter Monday program at Randwick with two of the three stakes races scheduled for the course proper transferred to the Kensington track and the final race abandoned...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh has questioned the faith punters have put in Raffaello who has been heavily backed for his first test at Group One level in Saturday's Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) at Caulfiel...