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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...

Trainer Peter Snowden has declared champion three-year-old Sepoy "in the zone" for the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on Derby Day after a dominant win against older horses in the Cau...

Trainer Sean Woods will be hoping for better luck this time around with Lord Sinclair when the lightly-raced grey tackles the Peninsula Golden Jubilee Challenge Cup (1,200m) at Sha Tin Sunday ...

Gai Waterhouse landed her fourth Mackinnon Stakes, and her third in five years, when Theseo snatched victory from the gallant grey Barbaricus who turned in an impressive Melbourne Cup trial at Flem...

Gai Waterhouse landed her fourth Mackinnon Stakes, and her third in five years, when Theseo snatched victory from the gallant grey Barbaricus who turned in an impressive Melbourne Cup trial at Flem...

Having studied every runner in the TAB's first market, I have settled on my early 'Top 5' for this year's running of the Blue Diamond. 2yo form is obviously very difficult to line up and I have bas...

In the last two issues of PPM, my old schoolmate and colleague Roman Kozlovski has drawn from his personal experiences of more than 40 years on the punt, forwarding to readers his five most valuab...