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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...

The big Doncaster question is this: Can More Joyous win on a heavy track? The 'facts' say No. She's had 2 goes on heavy and failed both times. Owner John Singleton is certainly concerned that MJ wi...

The Lloyd Williams-John Sadler camp is delighted by the way stable runners fared at Flemington on Saturday. Especially the win by Efficient in the Turnbull. 'That was a great win and we were expect...

A lack of suitable races at home is likely to force promising mare Zippy Lou to Sydney for the autumn following her nail-biting victory at Eagle Farm.Zippy Lou, ridden by lightweight jockey Jason T...