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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...

Weight-for-age racing holds the key to Black Piranha delivering more Group One success during the twilight of a distinguished career.Effectively announcing the end of Black Piranha's days as one of...

Ron Quinton has called on his experience as an Oaks-winning trainer and jockey to declare Crafty Irna a genuine AJC Oaks contender.Quinton rode three AJC Oaks winners during a distinguished career ...

That was an impressive performance by Frankel at Royal Ascot - scoring by 11 lengths in a Grp 1 race is rare. He did it in explosive fashion. But maybe a doubt or two remains. The time was nothing ...

Racing New South Wales and Australian Turf Club on Monday celebrated a milestone for former jockey Edgar Britt OAM, with a special luncheon at Royal Randwick. Edgar turns 100 on Wednesday and att...

It was pleasing to see Michael Rodd make something of a comeback with two winners at Caulfield last Saturday (his first city winners since March!) and it could be the start of an extraordinary few ...

BART Cummings has said his Flemington base is small on numbers but big on group 1 winners as he begins another assault on the Melbourne Cup carnival, reports The Age.It says: Cummings spoke from hi...