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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...

No Caulfield or Melbourne Cups for Ironstein this year, according to trainer Gerald Ryan. He says the much more modest Grafton Cup is the next target. GR adds: 'Ever since Jim Cassidy rode him and ...

Gerald Ryan's promising stayer Ironstein is the early fav for the Grafton Cup on Thursday, according to the market released by TAB Sportsbet on Monday.Ironstein 2.50 Beatboy 4.80 Teary Eyed 6.50 Tw...

Is Ironstein really a 'true' 6/4 chance for Thursday's Grafton Cup? Trainer Gerald Ryan seems confident he is but admits to being a little concerned at the 57kgs he'll carry. He says: 'He goes up f...

Sydney stayer Ironstein could be back to defend last year's Caloundra Cup win after surviving a protest to claim the Group Three Tattersall's Cup at Eagle Farm.But trainer Gerald Ryan won't be in a...

The Auckland Cup is among the options being considered for Ironstein who begins his new campaign at Randwick on Boxing Day.The five-year-old is by renowned sire of stayers Zabeel and stamped his po...

Ironstein, rated the slowest horse ever to come out of John Singleton's Strawberry Hill stud, could be headed for a Caulfield and Melbourne Cups campaign next year following his narrow win in the L...