Vigor Eye 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...

Trainer Danny O'Brien admits wide gates have made it difficult for his two Caulfield Cup runners but he will not be changing their tactics.Makybe Diva Stakes winner Vigor has the outside draw in th...

A SHOCKING RETURNVigor ran a great race and is on target. Heart of Dreams is a real chance for the Cox Plate. BUT the horse that caught that pair and won Saturday's Makybe Diva Stakes did it with p...

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSERWell, things are certainly getting that way in Horse Land. The Metropolitan was a demo job for Herculian Prince. The price was astounding. $1.40 last week, more than $5 this ...

The spring carnival heralded the arrival of some new stars and served as a reminder that some of the older ones were not done with yet.Mark Kavanagh claimed his greatest prize as a trainer when Sho...

The absence of top gallopers Whobegotyou and Typhoon Tracy from the Australian Cup nominations has helped fuel trainer Clinton McDonald's decision to target the feature with 2000 metre specialist P...

The absence of top gallopers Whobegotyou and Typhoon Tracy from the Australian Cup nominations has helped fuel trainer Clinton McDonald's decision to target the feature with 2000 metre specialist P...