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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...

Old timer Zipping has shown he is as good as ever and will have a fourth crack at the $3 million Cox Plate following his upset victory in the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington.Zipping gave owner Lloyd ...

Back-breaking weights haven't dissuaded leading owner Lloyd Williams from attacking obscure races at Caulfield with Cox Plate runner-up Zipping and Melbourne Cup placegetter C'est La Guerre.Zipping...

Is there a more courageous racehorse in Australia than Zipping? Yes, the winner is exceptional and for that reason alone we need to pay homage to Zipping for another gutsy effort to record his thir...

Brendan McCarthy's Zedi Knight heads a quality list of 27 noms for Caulfield's traditional Boxing Day feature the $120,000 Christmas Stakes (1200m). With 60kgs, the 8YO gelding faces a task to make...

Trainer Mick Price says Heart Of Dreams is a stronger and more mature gelding which will help him run out the 2000 metres of Saturday's Australian Cup at Flemington.The Show A Heart five-year-old e...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh and owner Lawrence Eales signalled they would again be major players this spring when Whobegotyou defeated reigning Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy in the Dato Tan Chin Nam St...