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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...

JOCKEY Simone Montgomerie has died after being thrown from her horse at the Darwin Cup meeting at Fannie Bay.  The mother-of-two was riding Riahgrand in Race 6 when the horse horse threw her to ...

The NSW racing industry is in mourning after respected trainer Pat Quinn died of a heart attack following a freak accident in a pre-race horse stall at Canterbury.The 63-year-old, who was based at ...

The NSW racing industry is in mourning after respected trainer Pat Quinn died of a heart attack following a freak accident in a pre-race horse stall at Canterbury.The 63-year-old, who was based at ...

  Champion trainer Guy Walter has died after suffering a suspected heart attack. Walter was at home when he became ill on Thursday morning. The trainer saddled up Streama to win last Saturday’s Gr...

Queensland jockey Corey Gilby has died after being severely injured in a fall in a post-meeting trial at Saturday's Julia Creek race meeting in north Queensland. Gilby, 25, died on Monday in Townsv...

Early bad luck...Cedarberg, one of Australia's main Caulfield & Melbourne Cup prospects, dropped dead after galloping at Moonee Valley on Tuesday morning. The Pat Carey-trained stayer had just com...