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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...

Wide Barriers? They're Never OK!On Australia Day I saw a near-perfect ride from a young three kilo claimer at Caulfield.He rode an in-form chance from a wide draw over 2000 metres (ten furlongs).Fr...

 A ustralian-based jockey James McDonald just missed out on a first Royal Ascot winner last week but the Kiwi is already hoping to be back with a Group 1 prospect next year.

I wish I could avoid all races with more than a dozen starters.The recent Doncaster was a case in point. Nineteen of the beasts and probably fourteen arguable chances. The favourite got buried earl...

When a day's racing is over, what do you do? If you've you've lost, you may well toss the formguide away, flop in an armchair and turn the channel from SKY to the ABC. You just don't want to think...

Blake Spriggs was the talk of Sydney racing after a five-win haul at Rosehill which had his boss Gai Waterhouse labelling him the most exciting apprentice since Shane Dye.Most of the attention in r...

Blake Spriggs was the talk of Sydney racing after a five-win haul at Rosehill which had his boss Gai Waterhouse labelling him the most exciting apprentice since Shane Dye.Most of the attention in r...