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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 brief-but-frustrating Australian career of imported stayer Tac de Boistron is over.

Big things in store for Pinker Pinker in 2012...Latest news is that the Futurity Stakes will be Pinker Pinker's only Melbourne run in a brief summer-autumn campaign. Trainer Greg Eurell is aiming h...

PROCEED WITH CAUTIONJust a brief warning so that nothing else gets in the road.At present the lovely filly BRAZILIAN PULSE is entered in two races at Rosehill.She's odds on in Race 3.She's $5.50 eq...

THE 2007 Melbourne Cup winner Efficient makes a brief return to racing on Saturday when he steps out for the first and only time this autumn in the 1200-metre listed Henry Bucks Straight Six, repor...

Star jockey Danny Nikolic has denied assaulting a fellow rider at a Melbourne racetrack.Nikolic, 37, is facing three charges of assault against jockey Mark Pegus at Caulfield Racecourse on January ...

Promising sprinter Second Effort will be looking to wind up a brief summer campaign with victory in the Listed Doveton Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer Clinton McDonald said it was likely that the light...