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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...

Exciting five-year-old Flat Chat will crown his meteoric rise through the grades with a crack at the Group Three Easter Cup at Caulfield.Trained by John Sadler, Flat Chat has won his past four star...

Mick Price says he couldn't be happier with Testa My Patience who is shooting for his fifth straight win at Flemington on Saturday.The Testa Rossa four-year-old made it four in a row when he defeat...

Shoot Out will proceed to the Group One AJC Australian Derby but the surgeon's knife awaits fellow Queenslander Captain Sonador who will miss the Randwick feature.A breakfast discussion between tra...

David Hayes will abandon plans to run  Spillway  in the Caulfield Cup. Hayes said  Spillway ’s ninth behind  Junoob  in last Saturday’s Metropolitan at Randwick raised doubt whether the five-year-...

Bob Ingham's recent prediction to trainer Chris Waller that it was just a matter of time before the prominent owner's famous cerise colours were again being carried to victory on a regular basis ha...

Tavistock's owners have cancelled his flight home from Melbourne and decided to have another go at a Group race there despite his disappointing effort in the Futurity Stakes.Tavistock, who races as...