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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...

It's easy these days to convince yourself that by looking at video replays and turn-and-finish photoform you can, suddenly, transform yourself into a winning punter. Oh that it were that easy! To...

Trans-Tasman trainer Graeme Rogerson capped one of the best weeks of his career when Shootoff won the $500,000 Group One Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm.Rogerson won last week's Queensland Oaks with...

Melbourne, here we come.That was the call from a jubilant Brian Smith when the former globetrotting trainer welcomed his cast-off stayer Hume back to scale after he won the Tattersall's Cup (2200m)...

Melbourne, here we come.That was the call from a jubilant Brian Smith when the former globetrotting trainer welcomed his cast-off stayer Hume back to scale after he won the Tattersall's Cup (2200m)...

Melbourne, here we come.That was the call from a jubilant Brian Smith when the former globetrotting trainer welcomed his cast-off stayer Hume back to scale after he won the Tattersall's Cup (2200m)...

There are some days when no matter what you do the punting gods ignore you as if you had the bubonic plague. I had such a day yesterday which started with a place bet on old Sir Slick. He did his b...