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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...

In Picking Winners: a Horseplayer’s Guide, Andrew Beyer discusses his meeting with Steve Davidowitz, a young punter, while sitting on a bench near a paddock at Saratoga Racetrack. After a discus...

Let's talk ways of betting. How to put the 'dosh' on the tips! It's such an important facet of racing and betting that we really can't talk enough about it. And there are so many errors made by ra...

Let's talk ways of betting. How to put the 'dosh' on the tips! It's such an important facet of racing and betting that we really can't talk enough about it. And there are so many errors made by ra...

Let's talk ways of betting. How to put the 'dosh' on the tips! It's such an important facet of racing and betting that we really can't talk enough about it. And there are so many errors made by ra...

Off we go for a new year of betting! Will it be a successful year for most punters? Alas, the answer to that question is no. But that's not a reason to feel despondent. A little bit of clear thi...