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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...

Can they leave nothing alone? These days it seems it's often change for the sake of change. Like Chief Stipe Terry Bailey's proposal for a 24-hour lockdown for runners in the 2010 Melbourne Cup. Oh...

OH THE CROC TEARS!Oh how I cried as I read it.The tears rolled down my face.OK, they were tears of laughter, but they were tears.A pro punter is making a mozza legally out of the TAB.He has massive...

Oh, oh, now they're picking on Bart...Racing NSW boss Peter V'landys reckons he's going to speak with Chief Steward Ray Murrihy in regard to the comments by Bart Cummings about the simmering whip r...

Big Time BettingWhen I was doing something entirely different, and I was oh so many years younger, I worked with a chap whose wife always backed the winner of the Melbourne Cup.She had to. She alwa...

Despite what other punters may tell you, the truth is that almost all punters are poor racecourse punters. Ask any bookmaker. The bookies will tell you of the many failings of even the most intell...

Not a raceday goes by without one or more horses turning in what we call 'form reversals' and many times these abrupt changes in form are shockers. There seems to be absolutely no reason for the i...