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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...

Shuffle, shuffle, toil and trouble...Three Racing Victoria stewards have been made redundant although they can still apply for newly created jobs. The Sunday Herald-Sun names the trio as Stephen Co...

The girls are copping it...Apprentice jockey Alison Threadwell has serious injuries after that big race pileup at Scone on Tuesday. She was one of four riders to come down in the Time Thief Maiden ...

DAMIEN Oliver will miss next Saturday's Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes meeting at Moonee Valley while Glyn Schofield will miss the Chelmsford Stakes meeting at Randwick after both were suspended today ...

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...

Roll up, roll up for the magical transformation of NSW racing - thanks to those nasty corporate bookies and that ever-nasty Betfair mob. They're the ones who'll be funding racing NSW's glittering m...

Judge Russell Lewis, outgoing chairman of the Racing and Appeals Disciplinary Board, has handed down potentially career-ending guilty verdicts to trainers Danny O'Brien, Mark Kavanagh and Melbour...