Why So Hard 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...

It's not hard to understand why Luke Nolen is not keen to talk to the media about his Black Caviar ride. He's had enough of the same old questions! So have I. Let's remember one important point - h...

Every Race? Sorree!Can't be done. When you listen to the tipsters, or watch them, remember they are PAID (and handsomely at that) to pick horses- up to four or more- in every race on their program....

  In this article, we introduce a new P.P.M. contributor, Philip Roy, a retired bank manager from Sydney who has been a devoted 'form analyst' for 40 years. Here he examines why winning horses wo...

DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO?As the snippet says, it's so hard NOT to bet on a big race.This weekend in Brisbane there's a humdinger, but apart from the favourite it's wide open.The strong likelihood is t...

All seems OK for So You Think in Dubai...Jockey Joseph O'Brien believes the Aussie superstar can scale even greater heights this season as he kicks off his campaign in the Dubai World Cup at Meydan...

Many and diverse are the reasons why horses win races. Some of the reasons hardly ring true. We call these 'form reversals' and usually they are accompanied by some half-baked explanation from con...