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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...

Doh! It was Aussie Downfall time at Sha Tin...The 3 big Aussie hopes all failed in the Hong Kong Sprint, although Aussie jockeys Brett Prebble and Darren Beadman rode the 1st and 2nd placegetters. ...

Brett Prebble seems to have the jockeys' championship sewn up in Hong Kong. With 6 meetings to go to the end of the season, the Aussie star has 96 winners from 551 rides, a strike rate of 17.4%. Hi...

Top jockeys Craig Newitt and Michael Rodd will ride in Singapore in 2015 after the Singapore Turf Club confirmed their jockey licences next year's racing season. Rodd heads to Singapore on a thre...

If we had a dollar for all the people with an anti-racing bent over the years who warned us that the jockeys' whips were actually striking their boots, not the horses, we'd have quite a pile of ca...

Australian jockey Zac Purton lauded Hong Kong as "a place where I'm encouraged to ride winners" as he launched an attack on controversial whip rules in his home country in the wake of a double a...

Encouraging overseas horses to come to Australia to contest the Melbourne Cup seemed like a good idea at one time but with eight Europeans in the field this year, many have called for a limit on th...