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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...

Peter Moody has left the door slightly ajar by not scratching Hanks from Saturday's Australian Guineas at Flemington while he makes sure travel arrangements are satisfactory for the gelding to run ...

Godolphin racing manager Simon Crisford is hoping Racing Victoria Chief Handicapper Greg Carpenter will take note of Royal Empire's encouraging victory at Newbury. Such was the relish with which ...

We'd all love to find a 'superbet' each day of the wouldn't we? If we could only reduce our betting down to that one fantastic winning bet each day, how wonderful this punting life would be. Find...

When we talk about punting we have to, alas, talk about illogicality and irrational thinking. We must talk about cashing the small bets and losing the big ones, about catching little 'fish' and mi...

  “If more than one person is responsible for a miscalculation, no one will be at fault. ' That is Murphy's Law at its best. Unfortunately, as far as the punter is concerned, he has no-one to ...

Last issue we began a series titled 20 Pitfalls To Avoid. Four were listed in that article, and now we bring you the other 16. Pitfalls ... Even the word has an ominous ring! You can call them wh...