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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...

How do you feel about horses that were beaten favourites last start?If you're not familiar with them, you'll usually find a "b" or a "bf" somewhere in a form guide, giving you a clue that the horse...

Sad to see the great Brian Mayfield-Smith decide to give up training because of a cash-flow problem...The big question for racing is how many other trainers are in the same leaky boat? Word around ...

Recently I selected Hunza's Ace to win for the Computer Service. He ran nowhere, but turned up the next Tuesday, still in town, and won at 7-2 after 9-2 was bet. I wasn't very impressed. It set m...

Recently I selected Hunza's Ace to win for the Computer Service. He ran nowhere, but turned up the next Tuesday, still in town, and won at 7-2 after 9-2 was bet. I wasn't very impressed. It set m...

What makes a champion? It's one of the most argued-about topics in racing. When does a horse graduate from being the best, or even just one of the best, to champion? That will remain a matter of ...

There are two groups of punters who invariably go to the races, or their TAB agencies, with the percentages piled high against them. They are the backers of favourites and longshots. No matter wh...