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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...

An Old WarningNothing's certain in racing.Surprised at this comment? Of course not.But for many years now I've warned against the outside barriers in sprints at Rosehill.Except when it's wet. Then ...

Few seem happy over the 'slash and burn' tactics currently underway in NSW racing, with prizemoney slashed for major races. Trainer Anthony Cummings fears for the future of Sydney racing carnivals....

BARRIERS TO SUCCESSI never tire of issuing this wanring.Be wary of the barriers at Rosehill until the races get out to 2000 metres and above.It's hard not to sound like a CD on "repeat", but please...

áMaking Money at the Races (6)Let's have any ideas you come up with about this balance between the careful, safety methods and the risky but tempting alternative approaches.Using my own research gl...

The scuttlebutt from Hong Kong is that champ Darren Beadman's riding career could be over. Beadman, 46, suffered a broken right cheekbone and head trauma in a fall in a February 17 barrier trial an...

A SMALL group of Australian punters who have accounts with the world's largest betting exchange, Betfair, will be the basis of an investigation into jockey Danny Nikolic by Racing Victoria Stewards...