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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...

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Three-time Grp 1 winner Ortensia is back in work and on target for a first up crack at the Black Caviar Lightning (1000m) on February 16 at Flemington.Trainer Paul Messara said the seven-year-old d...

This analysis is for favourite backers. For each of the tracks mentioned below, the favourites have been analysed over the past five years. This month these pages compare the favourite results f...

This analysis is for favourite backers. For each of the tracks mentioned below, the favourites have been analysed over the past five years. This month these pages compare the favourite results f...

Jockey Danny Nikolic has been fined $5,000 for failing to hand over his mobile phone to Victorian stewards.The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board (RAD) issued the fine after a hearing on Tuesday...

Jockey Danny Nikolic has been fined $5,000 for failing to hand over his mobile phone to Victorian stewards.The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board (RAD) issued the fine after a hearing on Tuesday...