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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...

How do you know when a horse is at, or approaching, peak fitness? PPM's  Richard Hartley Jnr tells all in this article, and explains how you can instantly find major prospects in a race. Every pr...

Astute Brisbane trainer David Murphy has warned punters his stable star Deacon will not be at his peak when he returns to racing at Doomben on Saturday.Murphy said Deacon missed some vital lead-up ...

Astute Brisbane trainer David Murphy has warned punters his stable star Deacon will not be at his peak when he returns to racing at Doomben on Saturday.Murphy said Deacon missed some vital lead-up ...

West Australian trainer Dan Morton may have had his confidence dented when Bliss Street was beaten last start but he remains optimistic about the filly's chances in the Thousand Guineas at Caulfiel...

Trainer Peter Moody didn't have to think too hard about backing up Black Caviar in the Lightning Stakes after what he described as the softest run of her career in last week's Orr Stakes at Caulfie...

Fitness plays such an important role in horse racing, and so few punters really know much about how to assess it, that we assigned Statsman to set out in detail his own expert views on this import...