This Is So 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...

This is interesting - the track that's supposed to be the saviour of washed-out turf meetings has fallen victim itself...Yes, Friday's Geelong synthetic meeting has had to be switched to Pakenham. ...

So tiresome...The antics of the Lloyd Williams operation are becoming a bit of a bore. And an embarrassment. Gagging jockey Michael Rodd after the win of Zipping in the Sandown Classic, and the dec...

This morning I read an article by Ray Thomas (Sydney Telegraph 20/9) where he quotes Gary Crispe, from Timeform, as declaring So You Think a better horse than Makybe Diva and Sunline. In the wake o...

Jason Maskiell is trying to resurrect his so-far wasted riding career. He's had 10 months off and returns with a handful of rides at Launceston on Sunday. He failed a drug test at Echuca last year...

This time last year So You Think had just embarked on a campaign that would lead him to his second Cox Plate and this year the son of High Chaparral is in Ireland where he has been installed an odd...

Are punters really shunning Cox Plate marvel So You Think in the Melbourne Cup? Well, this is the story being peddled around midweek. Sportsbetting has allowed the Bart Cummings trained superstar t...