The Theme 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 will be a quaddie theme about Saturday’s Moonee Valley meeting with three horses entering the program chasing a fourth-straight success.  Lucky Symbol, Kiss Me Ketut and Our Hand of Faith w...

Inconsistency in RacingáI have to agree with the people who contacted me after the final race at Randwick on July 25.How the hell could that horse win? was the general theme of the angry emails. Sp...

The Hong Kong Jockey Club will support a move to introduce a new category of black-type races, so-called Super Group One races. In an Asian Racing Conference session titled "The Pattern: Now and ...

The John Size-trained  Turbo Jewellery  has the form, the draw

RACING Victoria has called for a thorough report on the state of the Werribee track. CEO Bernard Saundry has asked for a full report after the final two races were abandoned following first day ...

Racing and betting is all about 'the angle', right? We're all looking for a new angle on an old theme? Too right Sometimes we think we've found THE angle, but time takes its toll and the angle ...