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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...

Flemington trainer Nigel Blackiston will play a double hand at Caulfield in a bid to win his second feature race for the week.Blackiston, who prepared last Monday's St Leger Stakes winner Right Of ...

The Godolphin mob are cranking up the hype machine for Kirklees. The well-credentialled stayer put in a spaqrkling gallop for Kerrin McEvoy on Monday, and the talk has started that Kirklees may pro...

There is no short cut in Australian horse racing, and Don Scott is the proof: he worked 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a week, at form study. Practical Punting's Brian Blackwell interviewed him i...

THE growing support for the two international runners in Saturday's Caulfield Cup gained further momentum yesterday when Kirklees and Cima De Triomphe were installed at the top of the market for th...

Guy Walter celebrated his third win in the Group One Australian Oaks as class rather than staying ability got Streama over the line in the fillies Classic at Randwick.Streama was heavily-backed to ...

Brett Scott couldn't speak highly enough of Yamanaura who further enhanced his excellent record over the jumps when comfortably winning the Barr Smith Hurdle at Moonee Valley.The champion jumps joc...