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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...

AN INJURY set-back for Victoria Derby winner Lion Tamer has thrust his emerging stablemate We Can Say It Now into Melbourne's autumn carnival spotlight, with the filly now being aimed at the $1 mil...

The Colin Little-trained debut winner Work The Room has much to live up to but is off to a good start as he prepares for a city success at only his second start.The Bel Esprit gelding is a half-bro...

The Colin Little-trained debut winner Work The Room has much to live up to but is off to a good start as he prepares for a city success at only his second start.The Bel Esprit gelding is a half-bro...

LEE Freedman is confident he can revive the fortunes of last year's one-time Caulfield and Melbourne cups favourite Speed Gifted, believing the hot autumn weather was the horse's undoing when last ...

DOOMBEN TURNS IT ONWhen answering a Q&A yesterday, I started to think about this blog, and what I could say that we haven't said about "bad" barriers.Well, try this.Saturday at Doomben presents a g...

Do you judge a horse’s chance only on its best form? If so, what approach do you make to the performances which are obviously not in keeping with the horse’s true ability? These questions are oft...