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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...

Ben Mason can vouch for training racehorses being a fickle caper.Two days after preparing his first metropolitan winner with Waranga at Eagle Farm earlier this month, Mason broke his left leg which...

Shane Scriven hopes to celebrate winning his first Brisbane jockeys' premiership with an early victory aboard Jazz Heart at Doomben.Scriven has five rides on Saturday and rates Jazz Heart in the Ow...

 Renowned trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith returned to the winner’s stall for the first time in more than three years when the lightly-raced gelding Henny Hoo broke his maiden in the Puckapunyal Army ...

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Blake Shinn is excited about resuming his career after a long absence due to a disqualification over a betting scandal and a broken leg.Shinn will have his first ride b...

Once every year, around about this time, we take stock and look at where things are going. While it might look a bit funny to call our Plan of the Month “Plan for the Year”, it doesn’t hurt to rem...

Once every year, around about this time, we take stock and look at where things are going. While it might look a bit funny to call our Plan of the Month “Plan for the Year”, it doesn’t hurt to rem...