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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...

Jockeys have threatened to take industrial action during the Melbourne Cup carnival over the lack of government commitment to funding the National Jockeys Trust. Riders will meet after the third ra...

Merry Christmas and A Happy Boxing Day!I do hope your Chrissie Day was a bottler, and that it all ended safely and happily.So what's on the agenda for the weekend?A special bet?One you've been swea...

Happy Birthday and Happy New Resolution!No I'm not going to preach. Saturday August 1 is all horses' birthday here in the southern hemisphere. That's the Happy Birthday wish above.What about the Ne...

The Australian Jumps Racing Association (AJRA) says it has overwhelming support from racing's stakeholders in the fight against the Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) decision to stop jumps racing in th...

As we swagger brightly into a new year, full of new resolutions, perhaps it's time to ponder on yester-year in order to try to make sense of what is to come. At the start of each year, I always ...

Had a break recently? Great. Hope you enjoyed it. Did you still do the form, have some bets, and so on? What’s that you said? “Is the Pope a Catholic?” Well, think about this for a moment. Why do...