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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...

Forgotten black-type winner Danehill Smile is primed for her return in the Triscay Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.Patinack Farm trainer Jason Coyle believes he could not have the mare in better sha...

Forgotten black-type winner Danehill Smile is primed for her return in the Triscay Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.Patinack Farm trainer Jason Coyle believes he could not have the mare in better sha...

Last month I ran out of space and I still had one “basic betting rule” to cover. This was my liking for Group races and especially for Group 1 races. It stands to reason that anybody who is seriou...

While Australia can lay to claim to having some of the best thoroughbreds in the world, its betting industry – one of the fundamental elements of racing – is many lengths inferior to that of oth...