Twig 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...

Bargain-basement buy Twiginthedesert is after his fifth consecutive win in Wednesday's Primacy Handicap at Sandown.The Desert Sun four-year-old, prepared at Geelong by Vin Malady, was bought by par...

Sometimes naming a horse has unforeseen repercussions. Much like Cyberdyne Systems' 'Skynet' network in Terminator II, if the animal/robot in question becomes 'self-aware', so to speak, they might ...

Victorian stayer Quarterbar may have raced his way into Group One Queensland Derby contention on Saturday week with his impressive victory at Doomben.Quarterbar, ridden by Kiwi jockey Chad Ormsby, ...

Slow and heavy tracks are s proven great levellers in racing. A million-dollar son of Danehill can be languishing back near last while the horse by the $1500 sire (who cost $3000 at the yearling s...