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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...

Top Drop is the new favourite for the Magic Millions Guineas with Squamosa out of the $1 million race.The Gerald Ryan-trained Top Drop scored against older horses at Randwick on Boxing Day and head...

Top Drop can join his Gerald Ryan-trained stablemate Amorino as a leading contender for Magic Millions riches with a solid performance in the Carrington Stakes.Amorino secured his place among the f...

The Black Opal Stakes at Canberra is the likely target for last start winner Top Drop if he can triumph again at Randwick on Saturday.Trainer Gerald Ryan, who won the Black Opal with Paint in 1996,...

The Black Opal Stakes at Canberra is the likely target for last start winner Top Drop if he can triumph again at Randwick on Saturday.Trainer Gerald Ryan, who won the Black Opal with Paint in 1996,...

Contenders in three of the Magic Millions feature races on Saturday week passed barrier trial tests at Rosehill on Friday.Magic Millions Guineas favourite Safusa kept his march towards the $1 milli...

Friday will be D-day for a decision on whether Hinchinbrook heads to the $1 million Golden Rose.Trainer Gerald Ryan said he had not pulled the pin on a start in the Group One race on August 28 alth...