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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...

Drosselmeyer thundered through the finishing stretch to win the $US5 million Classic on Saturday, capping the two-day, $US26 million Breeders' Cup meeting under the floodlights at Churchill Downs.A...

In his gentle, whispering, charming way, Ireland's greatest trainer answered his Australian counterpart.Bart Cummings, he was told, wasn't happy that so many Europeans were trying to win the Melbou...

In the third article in our special series, PPM editor Brian Blackwell and senior contributor The Optimist are joined by Ian Macarthur, author of several books on racing, and a semi-professional p...

Becoming an expert ... how many times have we read about "becoming an expert"? But there are so many areas in which we cannot become experts. We cannot be experts in delicate brain surgery, for ex...

When I started out to make money from horse-racing I was given two tips. They proved very helpful to me. But first, let me tell you some other things. My first attempt at making the racecourse m...

Barry Meadow, one of America’s greatest modern-day racing experts, has been a top-name writer in PPM for some years now. His collected works, in books and magazines, are a feast of information f...