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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...

Track bias is without doubt one of the most hotly debated issues in racing. It’s a dubious and tantalising mystery. If you believe in, and faithfully factor in track bias in your formwork, week i...

There's growing criticism of the bias at Rosehill - and much of it is coming from father and son team Ken and Richard 'Gets The Bikkies' Callander. Richie Boy blasted the inside bias on TVN and Ken...

DON'T BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE? WELL WHAT ABOUT TRACK BIAS?How You Feel About Track Bias? It seems to me that there are some things you can have opinions about, and that there are other things whi...

Track bias means many things to many people in racing. Even various commentators and racecallers seem to have their own ideas of what does, and what does not, constitute track bias, so a few words...

This month's article is on the influence of the "track bias" and barriers and how they may affect a horse's chances of winning. The article was written by the late George Tafe and is part of a boo...

Mention straight course racing and substantial wager in the same sentence, and I’m sure a fair percentage of the nation’s serious hard core punting brigade might just start to twitch a little. T...