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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...

Unheralded filly Combat Kitty, a provincial winner at her only start, will put her Magic Millions credentials on show to a wider racing audience when she makes her metropolitan debut on Saturday.Bu...

Unheralded filly Combat Kitty, a provincial winner at her only start, will put her Magic Millions credentials on show to a wider racing audience when she makes her metropolitan debut on Saturday.Bu...

They called him Louis The Snip. He was, in his heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, one of America's most successful punters. But Louis Holloway was also a man who spent his life trying to help other pu...