Too Hot To Hold 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...

The washup...Nothing too exciting has emerged from the Shane Dye kerfuffle in Mauritius...He's been suspended for a week and fined 100,000 Mauritian rupees ($3900) over his handling of a horse whic...

Betstar took no time at all to make Dunaden the new $7 favorite to make it two Melbourne Cups. Betstar's Alan Eskander told PPD: 'He was $21 for the Melbourne Cup before today but how can you ignor...

Gai Waterhouse's superstar 3Yo Pierro ($4.40) is struggling to hold down favoritism ahead of tomorrow's Cox Plate, says Matt Jenkins of TAB.com.au. He told PPD: 'He was $1.85 before the Caulfield G...

BLUE Diamond second favourite Rubick will have his final piece of fast work on Monday at Caulfield before Saturday's $1 million race.

Has Black Caviar had enough this time around? Could be. Trainer Peter Moody seems to hold concerns. Reports on Monday say he will monitor the unbeaten filly over the next 48 hours after she she dis...

Trainer John Moloney is hoping his improving Group One record will hold him in good stead with Flying Ruby in the Robert Sangster Stakes at Morphettville.Moloney's last two Group One performances w...