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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 above comment used to get my vote as the silliest comment in general use around the racing traps. Does it mean the horse will finish second? Or last? When you think about it, the person utteri...

The above comment used to get my vote as the silliest comment in general use around the racing traps. Does it mean the horse will finish second? Or last? When you think about it, the person utteri...

Danny Nikolic has failed in his bid to win a 'stay' of his 2 year riding ban. The Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal handed down its decision on Tuesday afternoon. It means Nikolic's career ...

What's the betting that after all the to-and-fro nonsense, that Sea Siren DOES start in the Stradbroke? The star 3YO filly has copped a 1.5kgs penalty to take her weight to 54kgs, but that's hardly...

Ready To Lift is off and running for the Melbourne Cup...Her powerful win over 2000m at Rosehill was a clear sign she's right back to her best after 3 runs from a spell. She'll have her next start ...

In a world which often seems to have gone computer crazy, there may well be a case to be made out by the average punter that everything is sending him a bit loopey. After all, even today it is a m...