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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...

In-form apprentice Patrick Moloney has failed in his appeal against a 16-meeting careless riding suspension. Moloney was suspended after riding Rapid Link in the NMIT Fillies and Mares 0 – 58 Hand...

It's closer to midnight than midday when Peter Moody begins the daily ritual of the racehorse trainer.A coffee, a smoke, a warm jacket and out into the stable yard to check on the horses.It's diffi...

THE ill feeling between Racing Victoria Ltd chief steward Terry Bailey and Danny Nikolic continued yesterday when the jockey appealed against a 13-day suspension for careless riding on Schilling at...

Jason McLachlan declared he was still learning the training trade after speedster Silvern broke through for his first city win in almost a year at Eagle Farm.Silvern, ridden by Eddie Wilkinson, led...

Two years since his failed Melbourne Cup mission, Hume will attempt to launch another bid for the famous Flemington feature at Doomben on Saturday.Trainer Brian Smith set Hume on the Melbourne Cup ...

Unbeaten colt Sepoy has thrashed his rivals in the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes to give Sheikh Mohammed's Darley operation its most important two-year-old success in Australia so far.The colt was...