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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...

Martin Dowling concludes his great series. So far in this series we have listed 71 betting ideas. To complete the series, we will now take a look at the remaining 29 of the '100 Great Betting Ide...

I have yet to meet the perfect punter. Or maybe I have and didn't realise I was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with a genius. I guess there are perfect punters around. It's just that I never see...

With a new punting year – 1995 – looming, it's time enough for any punter with serious designs of making money to decide if he, or she, is equipped with the necessary skills and psychological make...

I wonder if we will ever discover what really happened to Don Scott? The great professional punter was found dead in his bed last year amid rumours that he had killed himself with a massive overdo...

I wonder if we will ever discover what really happened to Don Scott? The great professional punter was found dead in his bed last year amid rumours that he had killed himself with a massive overdo...

Succeeding at racing is all about gaining an advantage. You need to get an edge over other punters, over the bookies and the tote. Accomplishing it is not easy, but, as we've outlined before in PP...