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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 Hong Kong Derby form has passed most of its tests so far, but  Got Fly  can give it another boost by winning the Group Three Queen Mother Memorial Cup (2,400m) at Sha Tin today(May 9), reports...

Every BMW Hong Kong Derby presents the clash of speed, class and stamina and John Size-trained  Luger  possesses enough of at least two of those qualities to take out today's renewal of the 2,000m...

Having studied every runner in the TAB's first market, I have settled on my early 'Top 5' for this year's running of the Blue Diamond. 2yo form is obviously very difficult to line up and I have bas...

Mark Coton is one of Britain's best-known racing identities. He is a former president of the National Association for the Protection of Punters, he was a high-profile writer with UK Racing Post an...