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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 ode that accompanies this article may be sung to Beethoven's Choral Symphony or the lesser - known Elegy in F Minor by Poulenc, Though a requiem would be more appropriate, a requiem to the enj...

IF IT'S possible to sound diffident about gaining the opportunity to win a $2.5 million prize and with it one of Australia's most celebrated races, then Seymour trainer Shannon Hope did so yesterda...

It is always great to see someone outside the usual suspects like Freedman, Waterhouse, Hayes, Snowden, Cummings and the new boys on the block in Moody and Price win a top race. This year the Great...

It is always great to see someone outside the usual suspects like Freedman, Waterhouse, Hayes, Snowden, Cummings and the new boys on the block in Moody and Price win a top race. This year the Great...

Improving three-year-old Dusty Star has boosted his Australian Guineas claims with an all-the-way win in the Group Two D'Urban Stakes at Caulfield.Trainer Peter Morgan was in awe of the performance...

Serious form work is a fascinating part of horseracing. I have often mentioned to friends that I like the unravelling part of racing more than the betting but I also love the staking part of the ho...