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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...

Last month I wrote that believing in the Law of Averages is the worst possible practice we can undertake. Belief in it can lead to - and usually does - total disaster. As correct and indisputable ...

In last month's issue I discussed two laws which will play an important part in your punting. One will help you lose, the other will help you win. They are known as the Law of Averages and the Law...

THE first of what may be a number of positive tests to the banned substance aminocaproic acid has been returned in thoroughbred racing, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Herald.His report s...

Racing Queensland has responded to its State Government's decision not to follow Victoria and NSW in introducing a Minimum Bet Law. It comes after Queensland's Racing Minister Grace Grace declare...

In this article our computer expert Neale Yardley investigates probabilities and dispels some common misconceptions many punters have about the so-called law of averages. During one of my recent ...

The autumn record of recent Caulfield Cup winners isn't too flash but trainer Leon Macdonald is confident Southern Speed can buck the trend.The four-year-old takes the first steps of her ambitious ...