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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...

Trainer Rob Heathcote will have earned his pay cheque if one of his Doomben and interstate representatives is successful on Saturday.Heathcote has had a hectic schedule over the past six days start...

Grahame Begg took a good look at stable star Secret Admirer late last week and was convinced he had the mare ready to peak for the Group One Doncaster Mile.Secret Admirer will attempt to become jus...

Trainer Rob Heathcote will continue his Group One adventure in two states with Tomboy confirmed a definite starter in the Coolmore Classic at Rosehill on Saturday.Tomboy impressed with her final ha...

Frankel completed his preparation for the Lockinge Stakes with a workout on grass at Newmarket that left trainer Sir Henry Cecil delighted with his unbeaten champion.Cecil resisted the temptation t...

Tony Gollan is arguably one of the country's busiest trainers at present but his immediate focus is on Cariad in the Listed Falvelon Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Gollan has been travelling ba...

Rob Heathcote admits he's a realist as well as a dreamer.Still chasing his elusive first Group One win following Woorim's shock failure in Saturday's Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield, Heathcot...