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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...

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

DOMINANT Victorian trainer Peter Moody is miffed by suggestions that leading trainers are less likely to face drug testing because they are too important to racing, reports the Melbourne Herald Sun...

Impressive Caulfield winner Aloha is likely to go for a spell. Trainer Mick Price says: 'That was run number seven this campaign...I would say she'll go for a spell because I want a horse for the a...

RATINGS ARE NOT EASYAs someone who has been rating horses for public consideration for more than thirty years, I feel I can speak with some experience on the subject. Let me tell you, if you haven'...

The step up from midweek racing to autumn carnival glory seems assured for Once Were Wild and Griffon who sailed through their assignments at Canterbury on Wednesday.Oaks-bound filly Once Were Wild...

The step up from midweek racing to autumn carnival glory seems assured for Once Were Wild and Griffon who sailed through their assignments at Canterbury on Wednesday.Oaks-bound filly Once Were Wild...

Trainer Noel Doyle could be forced to revise plans with Queensland's leading Magic Millions Guineas hope, Biggles.Doyle was giving serious consideration to sending Biggles into next month's $1 mill...