The Victorious 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...

Court moved with plenty of grace on her way to a slashing victory in the Listed Carrington Stakes at Randwick on New Year's Day, which is more than can be said for her jockey and trainer who both h...

Court moved with plenty of grace on her way to a slashing victory in the Listed Carrington Stakes at Randwick on New Year's Day, which is more than can be said for her jockey and trainer who both h...

DONCASTER winner Kermadec was victorious last start in the George Main Stakes at Randwick on September 15 and he’s favoured to salute again in  Saturday’s  $400,000 Group 1 Caulfield Stakes (200...

Patrick Payne-trained stablemates Capecover and Kerdem have continued their new jumping careers in style with wins at Bendigo on Sunday.The pair gave the former jockey his biggest day as a trainer ...

A paddock accident has claimed the life of champion New Zealand sire Volksraad.A stalwart at Windsor Park Stud, Volksraad topped the New Zealand sires' list eight times between 2001/02 and the 2009...

Caulfield trainer Clinton McDonald says Envious is the fresh horse on the scene going into Saturday's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes on his home track and expects the colt to acquit himself well.En...