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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...

Look out, Gai's warming up for the spring....Racing's queen Gai Waterhouse has old-timer Theseo in top nick and she's close to getting another string of top-liners ready to do battle. Theseo seems ...

The prospect of wet weather in Sydney for the rest of the week has boosted Joe Pride's confidence ahead of Vision And Power's attack on the Chipping Norton Stakes.The return of the Group One race t...

A barrier trial hitout at Rosehill on Tuesday has all but confirmed a Chipping Norton Stakes return for Maluckyday."All going well, if he pulls up well he'll be running on Saturday," co-trainer Mic...

Big things in store for Pinker Pinker in 2012...Latest news is that the Futurity Stakes will be Pinker Pinker's only Melbourne run in a brief summer-autumn campaign. Trainer Greg Eurell is aiming h...

The 2011 Chipping Norton Stakes signalled a turning point in Sacred Choice's autumn preparation and trainer Joe Pride expects the same this time around.After a couple of moderate runs, the blinkers...

Bart Cummings believes Melbourne Cup winner Viewed is ready to take another step in his career and claim his first major weight-for-age victory in the Ranvet Stakes.The five-year-old has had two ru...