Whittaker 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 David Payne's youngsters continue their winter charge at Randwick on Wednesday when Danza King and Midnight At Ascot will be in action.Payne won both two-year-old races at Canterbury on Tue...

Trainer David Payne's youngsters continue their winter charge at Randwick on Wednesday when Danza King and Midnight At Ascot will be in action.Payne won both two-year-old races at Canterbury on Tue...

Trainer David Payne's youngsters continue their winter charge at Randwick on Wednesday when Danza King and Midnight At Ascot will be in action.Payne won both two-year-old races at Canterbury on Tue...

What is the most important of all form factors?Now I've got your attention, I confess that this question, posed many years ago by a young journo, has remained a sort of permanent challenge to me.Yo...

Three-time Melbourne Cup winning jockey Jim Johnson is one of seven inductees to the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.Two jockeys, two trainers, two horses and one associate will be officially instal...

When it comes to the Sydney Morning Herald's formguide, it's a case of 'big' is best. The newspaper's Friday morning guide is an example of what an all-round formguide should be. It runs to 20 pa...