What A Thought 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...

JUST A THOUGHTWhat I know, what you know, and what they know.So say there's a market up.Your strong fancy is Number One.It's mine too.We've both done the form.The prepost newspaper market offers ti...

A Brief Thought.I've been doing the form for the weekend. So what's new, you ask.Well, it's the number of races I was able to strike a pen through within ten to fifteen seconds.And it's Villiers Da...

Another Thought of the DayI don't know about you, but I'm a bit prone to waking up during the night and thinking about some assault or other that I'm planning on the enemy.Last night, I wondered ab...

FOOD FOR THOUGHT? YOU'D BETTER BELIEVE IT!"Hi T.O. Your blog readers may be interested in this. I spent a bit of time on it this morning and frankly I'm staggered by it.OK, in Brisbane on Saturday:...

What on earth were the connections of Yosei thinking when apparently contemplating sacking Michelle Payne from Yosei after the filly's failure in the Flight Stakes at Randwick? There was nothing wr...

AFTER THE BALLWell we've had it. Been and gone. And nobody could begrudge the winner his prize, could they? Did it the hard way.I thought there could be a happy ending for me at the 250 as my earli...