Velveteen 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...

Black Caviar could face one of the biggest fields of her career in the Group Two Australia Stakes following unexpected interest in taking on the unbeaten champion.For much of her career Black Cavia...

Trouble around the Black Caviar camp, according to the UK Mail On Sunday newspaper. It says: 'The biggest ever media circus to follow an overseas racehorse in Britain has followed Black Caviar half...

The five Victorian trainers charged over cobalt positives face the possibility of having their licences stripped before their charges are even heard after they were issued show-cause notices by Ra...

Officials have been forced to abandon a public holiday race meeting in regional South Australia because of a locust plague.The Murray Bridge Racing Club fixture fell victim to a swarm of locusts at...

The new whip rules introduced throughout Australia on August 1 have the potential for major controversy over the spring carnival, says Victorian Jockeys' Association (VJA) director Ross Ingliss.The...

The new whip rules introduced throughout Australia on August 1 have the potential for major controversy over the spring carnival, says Victorian Jockeys' Association (VJA) director Ross Ingliss.The...