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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...

Professional punters who once scoffed at quinellas as a 'serious ' method of wagering are changing their tune now that exactas are becoming the 'in thing', especially on the NSW TAB. They say exa...

Recently, a friend rang me up declaring he had a special at the Bankstown (NSW) harness racing meeting that night. The horse, he told me excitedly, had excellent form, had drawn barrier one and ...

Drivers play a major role in the harness code. Good drivers possess what is known as a 'light touch'. Couple this with the ability to control emotions, race experience and lightning-fast reflexes ...

Recently, a friend rang me up declaring he had a special at the Bankstown (NSW) harness racing meeting that night. The horse, he told me excitedly, had excellent form, had drawn barrier one and ...

One of the perennial debates in racing is over the effects of the barrier draw on a horse’s chances in a race. In August 2003, I joined in a discussion on the web-based racing forum, AusRace, reg...

Harness Racing is, as a spectator sport, far different from its relative. The closeness of the horses to the crowd, the tight, even racing, thrills and sometimes spills. And despite what the ard...