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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...

It's all about problems, puzzles and challenges as the Jockey Club sheds the annual burden of an US$8 billion tax guarantee to begin a bright new era next Sunday at Sha Tin, reports Alain Aitken in...

Danger looms...For the connections of Smart Missile, anyway. The hysteria hype has already begun for the son of Fastnet Rock and that's a big burden to carry! Headline horses have a habit of faili...

PUNTERS are happy to forget the burden of New Zealand form and are expected to make Jimmy Choux a dominant favourite for Saturday's Group 1 Flinders Lane Rosehill Guineas (2000m), reports the Sydne...

In the midst of stable rents going up at Randwick, the Australian Jockey Club is set to lose valued client Nathan Tinkler and his Patinack Farm operation from Warwick Farm, reports Craig Young in t...

More Joyous has been weighted marginally above expectations in the Epsom Handicap but there are stable fears of a bigger burden by acceptance time.Gai Waterhouse's glamour mare was given 55.5kg - 1...

Anthony Cummings admits he won't know until race day whether an inside barrier is a blessing or a burden for Turffontein in his quest to claim a third Group One in the Newmarket Handicap at Fleming...