With That 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...

So, stewards have found no fault with Danny Nikolic's ride on Trustus at Flemington - that's the ride that sent the horse's co-trainer Brian Johnston into sucha rage that he went complaining to the...

The official findings into the race fall that left jockey Danny Brereton with spinal injuries concluded yesterday when Mark Zahra was found guilty of careless riding and suspended until January 1, ...

TOP trainer Danny O'Brien yesterday rejected suggestions that his criticism of the Flemington surface on Saturday was motivated by a personal feud with course manager Mick Goodie, reports Michael L...

THAT WAS INTERESTING.Here are the horses we identified (check my last blog to see why):Race 3: Zelsnitz and Sayahailmary (second at $8.00).Race 5: More Joyous (won, no prizes for that!) and King Mu...

Dr Tom Brennan, a central figure in the cobalt investigations that are taking place in Victoria and NSW, has admitted to stewards in both states that he has not provided accurate evidence, reports...

WAS THAT ME?Vigor's $26 for the Caulfield Cup collapsed late last week. I just wondered whether or not it was down to my comments here. Probably not, and probably a weenie bit immodest, but then he...