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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...

Veteran Vision And Power will break new ground and a two-year losing streak if successful in Saturday's Listed Winter Cup at Rosehill.The Joe Pride-trained eight-year-old has not won since he snare...

It's not quite the winning streak of stablemate Black Caviar but Power O'Raylee has been stringing a few wins together too and is out to make it six straight in Wednesday's $300,000 Mornington Cup....

Expectations are high about much-maligned sprinter Snappy Tom ending a 31-month losing streak.Jockey Craig Newitt has warmed to the Danielle Chapman-trained seven-year-old after riding him at his l...

There's probably nothing more depressing than hitting a losing run at the races. Well, maybe losing your job while holding a $250,000 mortgage could be considered a little more depressing, but you...

Nerve? What's that? A bit of cheek? Not quite the same. Nerve is the thing that gives us the power to carry on. It's the strength to make yet another bet in the face of a fierce losing streak, to...

Luck. It's the second most famous four letter word in the world. Or is it the third, behind love and that other one. Whatever ... luck means everything to punters. Without luck we are usually los...