The Ridla 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...

North Queensland journeyman Darryl Hansen will travel virtually anywhere to win a race and come Saturday he will go in search of his biggest career victory in the $200,000 Bernborough Handicap (163...

So You Think remains the dominant favourite for Tuesday's Melbourne Cup but Maluckyday was the buzz horse at the Call of the Card in Melbourne where he was backed to win more than $1 million.Maluck...

The last time trainer Grahame Begg saddled up a Cox Plate starter, young jockey Brenton Avdulla had never even ridden a horse.Avdulla has taken major steps in his riding career in the past two year...

Two decades after training his first Group One placegetter in the Galaxy, Darren Smith finally went one better when Atomic Force raced away with the feature sprint at Randwick.Atomic Force revelled...

Trainer Shaun Dwyer is confident his stable's fortunes are on the rise following a recent form slump and is confident of landing a treble at Doomben on Wednesday."Things are starting to pick up and...

As a wizened Englishman named Mick has been heard to sing, 'Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste'. And a man of wealth and taste I am, of course, if wealth is measured...