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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...

Finding a race for promising filly Onethingatatime has been a challenge, and getting a start is another story altogether.The Catcher In The Rye filly runs in The Riverview Hotel Hcp (1150m) at Rand...

This is not a hypothetical situation; it is a true story - one that undoubtedly some of you have experienced, in one way or another. I've got a mate nicknamed 'Horizontal' who thought he was a ...

This is not a hypothetical situation; it is a true story - one that undoubtedly some of you have experienced, in one way or another. I've got a mate nicknamed "Horizontal" who thought he was a pr...

This is not a hypothetical situation; it is a true story - one that undoubtedly some of you have experienced, in one way or another. I've got a mate nicknamed "Horizontal" who thought he was a pr...

As most of us have learned, even after only a few years as a punter, a sensible approach to form will provide a goodly amount of winners. The catch is that everyone usually finds the same "form" h...

Steve Ahern was one of Britain's greatest professional punters. He made a fortune in the 1940s and '50s and lived a life of luxury in Majorca. This is the final part of our series of extracts from...