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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...

Veteran Toowoomba horseman Barry Squair will chase a consolation prize with his promising sprinter G'Day Old Mate at Eagle Farm on Saturday after he was balloted out of the rich Weetwood Handicap.S...

In just about every sport we can name, the word "inspiration" is mentioned time after time. Just check any newspaper's sports coverage and you're likely to find some comments about players being i...

Like me, I suppose most of you at some stage have declared that a jockey has hooked up your horse - the one you bet on, that is. Whether he did or not is rarely known, except by the jockey. In t...

This is the second part of my article on recognising the vital signs in your betting and understanding how they operate. We were at the point of talking about formguides (vital sign ten) when we...

Everyone is familiar with the old cliché that goes: “There’s more than one way to skin a cat”. For the punter, there can be few more important sentences than this one. Every article that you’ll e...

Everyone is familiar with the old cliché that goes: “There’s more than one way to skin a cat”. For the punter, there can be few more important sentences than this one. Every article that you’ll e...