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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...

The BIG races have come around again, and thats when Australia's 'top gun' tipster Brian Blackwell gets going! Just as he promised PPD Club members, BB was delivering the big-race winners on ...

Interesting ChangesI think something of great value could have come out of that last blog. You'd have seen that your horse was either 1-2-3 on the turn or forget it... well, there's more to it than...

Shocking is favourite to maintain his unbeaten record at Flemington in the Turnbull Stakes but trainer Mark Kavanagh fears the Melbourne Cup winner may be looking for a slightly longer trip than Su...

BART Cummings is rarely one to make comparisons between his champions of the past and his current team, but the master trainer yesterday had no hesitation in comparing his outstanding filly Faint P...

The weather will determine if trainer Tim Martin gets an early shot at Group One glory in Brisbane this winter.The trainer has Queensland carnival aspirations for handy mare Fibrillation, who has r...

Expressway Stakes winner Rain Affair is well on the way to fulfilling his destiny as a top line sprinter and trainer Joe Pride is looking to Neeson to do the same.Pride has always had a high opinio...