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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 combination of running a hair salon and training horses for the past 12 years has come to an end for Toowoomba's Jackie Crompton.Crompton, who prepares nine horses at Toowoomba, has sold her ha...

Here we go again? Pacemaker supremo Aidan O'Brien may be returning to Australia for another crack at the Melbourne spring carnival. Aidan really made an impact last time he was here. Remember the c...

Safari bound...Michelle Payne may be the last of a famed riding clan, but don't expect this petite young jockey to be hanging around. The 24-year-old, who has been riding for nine years, including ...

It won’t be just Group 1 glory and some of the $1 million in prizemoney  Nick Hall  will be racing for when he partners Japanese miler World Ace in Saturday’s George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehi...

LEADING Perth trainer Mark Reed was yesterday maintaining that while he was deflated by the barrier draw for his Perth Cup favourite Kincaple he was confident Melbourne-based jockey Dwayne Dunn cou...

Gerald Ryan will rely on Hot Snitzel to repel the Darley two-year-olds in Saturday's BRC Sires' Produce Stakes at Eagle Farm.The trainer admits it will be a tough task with the Peter Snowden-traine...