The Precursor 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...

Pre Eminence will run in Saturday's Autumn Classic at Caulfield as a precursor to taking on the older horses in the Australian Cup a week later.Trainer Mick Price earmarked the three-year-old for t...

Pre Eminence will run in Saturday's Autumn Classic at Caulfield as a precursor to taking on the older horses in the Australian Cup a week later.Trainer Mick Price earmarked the three-year-old for t...

The Rado Boljun pair Clever Hans and Kiss My Fuji head to Wagga on Friday as a precursor to big-race assignments at next month's Narooma Cup meeting at Moruya.Both horses resume in the Alan Harris ...

Over the years, more than a few racing fans have been confused with the Lawrence Stakes and Memsie Stakes.Both are Group 2 events run at weight-for-age over 1400 metres at Caulfield, generally duri...

Star filly Brazilian Pulse, who resumes in Saturday's Group Two Kewney Stakes at Flemington, remains a chance to complete the VRC Oaks-AJC Australian Oaks double.Trainer Mike Moroney said he was st...

Grahame Begg has had to wait more than a month for the ideal race for speedy mare Goldam and believes he's found it in the form of the Pink Stiletto Sprint at Randwick.The five-year-old has had two...