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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...

In my August 28 blog I posed a series of "what ifs" and they were all answered on Saturday. Let's go through them one by one. Tickets just plodded first up but the run was good enough to suggest st...

Embattled jockey Danny Nikolic bounced back the day after being issued with two charges by Racing Victoria stewards when he rode Not A Pretender to an all-the-way victory in the $250,000 Inglis Pre...

Embattled jockey Danny Nikolic bounced back the day after being issued with two charges by Racing Victoria stewards when he rode Not A Pretender to an all-the-way victory in the $250,000 Inglis Pre...

This is the second and final extract from James Quinn’s best-selling book The Best of Thoroughbred Handicapping, Leading Ideas and Methods, which we have chosen as one of the 10 best racing books ...

Britain's foremost racing expert Philip Alexander concludes his two-part feature on the legendary punter Phil Bull, founder of the Timeform organisation and one of the UK's greatest professional p...

I attended a private form forum the other week. The attendees were all punters who have made a living from the game for some years now. It’s not the first time we have all got together. Such gath...