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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...

Her racing silks were different but it was an all too familiar result as More Joyous started her Doncaster Mile campaign on a winning note at Randwick on Saturday.Sporting a dark blue livery emblaz...

Joe Pride is banking on a reunion between an elder statesman of Australia's jockey ranks and his veteran galloper Vision And Power to deliver a Group One result on Saturday.Pride confirmed Vision A...

It was almost a case of deja vu for trainer John O'Shea and owners Trevor Stuckey and Penny Yan when a colt caught their eyes at the yearling sales.Five years ago they secured subsequent multiple G...

It was almost a case of deja vu for trainer John O'Shea and owners Trevor Stuckey and Penny Yan when a colt caught their eyes at the yearling sales.Five years ago they secured subsequent multiple G...

With punters facing the prospect of more and more the inevitable outcome is that they're tempted to bet on too many races and study each race with less attention than ever. It's an enormous shame ...

In an article in the April issue of PPM I stressed that SPEED RATINGS are the single most important factor in greyhound handicapping. I realise, however, that the racing forms used in your countr...