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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...

Yes, But How Wet?If the Doomben Ten Thousand, one of Australia's biggest sprint races, wasn't being run this weekend I'd be tempted to go to the movies.Well not seriously. I'm addicted to racing wh...

NO NOTHING THIS WEEK.Sorree! Yes of course you can get "something," if you want.But what I really wanted to ask you is if you'd ever gone a week without deciding on a bet.Many punters haven't.Here'...

Does Your Bookmaker Love You?This is a shorter blog.That's because I felt it might be time to call a spade a (ahem... fill in adjective) shovel.Does your bookie have good reason to feel very fond o...

Both Denman and Heart Of Dreams have gone from chocolates to boiled lollies this campaign and both need to become reinvented horses. Although there were excuses made for Denman the bottom line issh...

Many years ago, the American Turf Guide tackled the subject of 'what does the average bettor really know' about racing. Writer Rufus Gorman conducted the question-and-answer session. The principl...

COFFEE ANYONE?Yes, well I'd bet that many of you immediately knew I was going to mention Melito, the three year old filly which has maintained her Group One form for Gerald Ryan and has Blake Shinn...