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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...

Michael Rodd continued his brilliant form in black-type races when he guided the Guy Walter-trained Slapstick to victory in the Group Three Keith Nolan Classic at Kembla Grange.The victory was Rodd...

Guy Walter knows his two stable representatives need to lift significantly on Saturday if he is to claim a third AJC Australian Oaks.Ceviche and Slapstick aren't rated among the main chances in bet...

Gary Portelli has long believed Mirrasalo could develop into an Oaks filly and he will go a long way to finding out if he is right at Rosehill on Saturday.Mirrasalo will put her AJC Australian Oaks...

A repeat performance at Warwick Farm of her recent Hawkesbury win will confirm the Oaks credentials of Isola, a close relation to champion stayer Tie The Knot.Trainer Guy Walter is more than famili...

A repeat performance at Warwick Farm of her recent Hawkesbury win will confirm the Oaks credentials of Isola, a close relation to champion stayer Tie The Knot.Trainer Guy Walter is more than famili...

N A week's time, Luke Nolen's face may well be broadcast around the globe as the rider of the world's fastest horse, Black Caviar, following her run in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in ...