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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...

Add bookmakers to the endangered species list as racing turns from on-course sport to an off-course one, reports the Age/Sydney Morning Herald. It says: Punters have never been better looked after ...

Lots of 'issues' were settled with Sepoy's great win in the Golden Slipper. Firstly, all the critics who said Sepoy was 'over the top' after his Todman Slipper 2nd were proven totally wrong. Even a...

Let's hope it's better than the new whip rules! The controversial ratings-based handicapping system is to be replaced in NSW from October 1 with a system officials say will be truly merit-based. Th...

Champion Black Caviar will have another modern day sprinting idol for company on Saturday when she is led onto the Caulfield track by Hong Kong hero Silent Witness.Black Caviar equalled the dual Ho...

The owner speaks! Dunaden's mega-rich owner Sheikh Fahd Al Thani reckons Pommy invader Red Cadeaux and not well-fancied Americain is the main threat to his champion stayer grabbing a back-to-back w...

Veteran turf scribbler Max Presnell has gone into bat for women...He reckons three women should start from the one gate for the independent positions on the merged AJC-STC board. Max says in his SM...