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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 times are ahead for promising filly Shelters who resumes after a short break at Sandown.Trained by Peter Snowden, the rising four-year-old has raced three times and is coming off an unbeat...

Gai Waterhouse has cut short an overseas trip and is expected to arrive in Sydney on Friday following the death of her mother Valerie Smith.Mrs Smith had been in ill health for some time and died e...

Trainer Mike Moroney is looking ahead to the Brisbane carnival with lightly-raced three-year-old Noble Park who has emerged as a Queensland Derby candidate after scoring at Sandown.The Pins gelding...

The Golden Slipper focus was firmly on second favourite Smart Missile on Tuesday following a scintillating workout at Randwick and a favourable barrier draw for Saturday's $3.5 million race.The Ant...