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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...

In the latest part in his series on greyhound racing, George 'Barker' Bellfield hands out some useful tips on how to devise your own selection system for the dogs. Anyone contemplating operating...

In the latest part in his series on greyhound racing, George 'Barker' Bellfield hands out some useful tips on how to devise your own selection system for the dogs. Anyone contemplating operating...

This is the second of a three-part series in which George 'Barker' Bellfield reveals the private collection of greyhound systems compiled over 40 years by a British professional punter known as Mr...

This is my first article in a new series. You, the readers, will hopefully write to Equestrian, and indicate some of your favourite "Optimist" articles from the past 20 years. You will determine...

In Australian horse racing the four Melbourne racecourses stand out for their complete difference to each other — and the barrier draw is worth something different at every one. Statsman takes thre...

Betting on the quinella has always been popular with Australian punters, and these days there is a decided finesse in the way some punters go about it. Spearheaded by the Don Scott exotic betting...