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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...

Trainer Grahame Begg remains optimistic about Handsupfordetroit's chances in the Group One Randwick Guineas despite a nightmare barrier draw which gave the gelding the widest gate for Saturday's fe...

Trainer Grahame Begg remains optimistic about Handsupfordetroit's chances in the Group One Randwick Guineas despite a nightmare barrier draw which gave the gelding the widest gate for Saturday's fe...

A wide barrier has put only a slight dent in trainer John Wallace's confidence in exciting three-year-old Shoot Out making a successful comeback in the Gold Edition Plate at Eagle Farm.Shoot Out, w...

Grahame Begg's long-range plan to target Scone's Inglis 3YO Guineas with Fedde hit a hurdle this week when the gelding drew the outside barrier.Fedde has gate 16 of 16 in the rich $500,000 race and...

First-up expectations have been kept in check for Howdiddydoit when the stakes-placed galloper resumes at Warwick Farm on Wednesday."Obviously it's the start of a preparation and he's had the misfo...

Grahame Begg doesn't place too much importance on barriers in 1600-metre races at Randwick which is just as well when it comes to the stable's Doncaster runners.Palacio De Cristal drew gate 12 whil...