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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...

British trainer Mark Johnston came to Australia with such high hopes of winning the 1995 Melbourne Cup that he decided to fully savour the experience by travelling to Flemington by train and in a k...

One of the hardest things to master in our game is the “art” of keeping one’s balance at the racetrack whether ahead or behind. Granted, we most often lose this precious balance when behind for t...

One of the hardest things to master in our game is the “art” of keeping one’s balance at the racetrack whether ahead or behind. Granted, we most often lose this precious balance when behind for t...

THERE are no prizes and very little profit in selecting hot favourite Sepoy to win tomorrow's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes, but despite the awful record of odds-on favourites in the race (five st...

There are some horses you have to sneak up on and back them before they know you have backed them. This type of horse has Superman's x-ray vision because when they see you have backed them they bec...

Trainer Paul Messara was quick to make up for Alverta's defeat in the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot when Mirrasalo won the Group Three Tattersall's Cup at Eagle Farm.Mirrasalo, ridden a trea...