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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...

As expected, American is all but ruled out of running in the Caulfield Cup. He was one of the 2nd acceptors but it appears the horse's owners are not serious about a CC start. They see the race as ...

No worries, mate...The spring campaign of well-backed Cups hope Shamrocker is still 'on track' despite her lacklustre performance in Sat's Underwood. Trainer Danny O'Brien says the mare will conti...

Goldmarket winner Captain Sonador will have his next run in the Magic Millions Cup (1400m) at the Gold Coast carnival meeting on Jan 15. The Goldmarket victory was his sixth from 26 starts. His pr...

Co-trainer Leon Macdonald says the Cox Plate is off the agenda for his top mare Southern Speed. Her campaign will now focus on the Caulfield Cup which she won last year. SS ran on impressively to f...

No Caulfield or Melbourne Cups for Ironstein this year, according to trainer Gerald Ryan. He says the much more modest Grafton Cup is the next target. GR adds: 'Ever since Jim Cassidy rode him and ...

Ready to blast off...Gold Coast stayer Shoot Out will kick off his spring campaign in the $100,000 Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield on July 31 - and trainer John Wallace is bubbling with confidence....