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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...

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

A star is born...That's my conclusion after watching All Too Hard demolish his rivals in the Talindert 1100m at Flemington. Few youngsters can make such a dynamic impression on debut. And no wonder...

It should never happen again! What I'm referring to is the VRC's decision to allow Channel 7 to totally control spring racing TVcoverage. It meant a lockout of TVN and Sky - the channels that suppo...

Ouch, that hurt...Racing NSW stewards have hit Sydney jockeys Peter Robl and Blake Shinn with lengthy disqualifications at the conclusion of an inquiry into the pair's illegal betting. Shinn was gi...

Today sees the conclusion of a remarkable season in Hong Kong for New Zealand thoroughbreds, having out-performed all other nations represented in terms of number of winners, strike rate of winners...

Ben Melham was on Friday suspended for two months at the conclusion of an inquiry into his riding tactics aboard the Tony Vasil-trained Ariarni at Pakenham late last month.Melham was charged with f...

The big spring push by owner Lloyd Williams is currently in tatters. That's the only conclusion to be drawn from Sat's racing at Flemington. Lloyd admits it was not a bright day for his stable -- f...