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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...

Jockey Kristy Banks is facing life as a possible paraplegic after a fall at Toowoomba on Saturday night.Banks' mount August Bishop clipped heels and crashed to the turf shortly after the start in t...

Jockey Kristy Banks remains in a Brisbane hospital after suffering spinal injuries in a fall at Toowoomba on Saturday.The extent of the 30-year-old's injuries will not be confirmed until swelling a...

The fall that left popular Queensland jockey Kristy Banks with severe spinal injuries has been deemed accidental.Banks fell from August Bishop at the 900m mark of a race at Toowoomba on New Year's ...

Kristy Banks isn't yet feeling the pressure ahead of the biggest ride of her career aboard Spirit Of Boom in Saturday's $2 million Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast.Banks will become only th...

Memories of 1973 Stradbroke Handicap winner Lucky Cloud were revived when trainer Graham Banks broke a six-year drought at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.Banks, who trains at Oakey on the Darling Downs we...

ANTHONY CUMMINGS is banking on a change of fortune for his highly touted galloper Trader, which runs in the Top Cut Steaks Handicap at Rosehill today, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.Its report a...