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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...

Rubiscent will make history should he win Saturday's Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes over 1400 metres on the anniversary of his only Group One and weight-for-age victory in last year's 1800m Underwood Sta...

Trainer Stuart Webb is wary that a successful winter campaign may rule three-time Group One winning mare Yosei out of next month's Cox Plate.Webb said the four-year-old had come up well this prepar...

Champion jockey Craig Williams put his trust in lightly-raced mare Response when he fired her to front to lead all the way in the Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield.Saturday's bold tac...

Brian Mayfield-Smith is hopeful that Orange County can overcome a wide gate to hold his Group One-winning form and become the third horse in five years to complete the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes-Toor...

The Cox Plate looms as a target for powerhouse entire Toorak Toff after he rewarded the faith of his trainer Rick Hore-Lacy with a Group One comeback victory in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caul...

A daring first-up tilt at the Doncaster Mile is an option being considered for stakeswinning stayer Ironstein.The winner of the Group Three Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m) at Flemington in November,...