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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...

Britain's racing writers are ripping Luke Nolen to shreds in the wake of his 'blunder from Down Under' on Black Caviar. In the Mail on Sunday, Jonathan Powell thundered: 'Had Nolen's schoolboy howl...

Another spring carnival done and dusted. The Sandown Classic card is the final meeting for the spring session and Zipping made it one to remember, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Herald.H...

I anyone knows about the business of betting, it's PPM's own systems guru Statsman. He's made a lifelong study of all aspects of betting. Some years ago, in September 1989 to be exact, Statsman p...

I was shocked when I learned that Statsman, our systems guru for the last 20 years, has decided to retire. It's a decision he's been thinking of making for some time, especially since he complete...

I was shocked when I learned that Statsman, our systems guru for the last 20 years, has decided to retire. It's a decision he's been thinking of making for some time, especially since he complete...

Beating the races is entirely a question of HOW and WILL. You need to know how to beat them, and then possess the will to carry through with your resolve. Some punters alas, the majority have not...