The Prospect 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...

They say jockeys are bad tipsters but some of them know what they are talking about...Jim Cassidy is one, so perhaps we should listen (and so should trainer Rick Worthington) when 'The Pumper' decl...

Glyn Schofield says he's impressed with his Melbourne Cup mount Mourilyan. GS was aboard when Mourilyan worked nicely at Sandown on Thursday morning. The Herman Brown-trained gelding worked with s...

Bound for Australia? The Steve McKee trained filly Pussy Willow looks like a readymade Kiwi challenger for Oz spoils. She landed the biggest two-year-old prize of the season so far in NZ when she ...

What a run by Leica Larrikin for 2nd at Flemington! It puts the spring Cups right in his sights. The Melbourne Cup dream turned ugly for trainer Richard Freyer with his unlucky stayer Leica Falcon,...

After an impressive Grp 1 win over 1200m at Ellerslie on Saturday, NZ 2YO Banchee is being considered for a late entry in the Golden Slipper. Trainer John Sargent rates the filly one of the best 2...

EMERGING five-year-old Sea Galleon yesterday showed he could be a stayer to watch next year after scoring his easiest victory and his first over 2400 metres at Betfair Park, reports the Sunday Age....