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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...

Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'landys defended the scheduling of the $10 million The Everest, claiming its timing could prove a boon for Melbourne's Spring Carnival, reports racing.com. The a...

Emotional scenes engulfed Goulburn on Monday when Wendy Walter trained her first winner at the track where her late husband Guy trained his last. Wendy Walter and stable jockey Blake Shinn wer...

John O'Shea has booked Melbourne jockey Craig Newitt to ride Chairman's Handicap winner Jessicabeel in the Saturday week's Grp 1 Sydney Cup at Randwick. Craig Williams rode Jessicabeel to her stron...

Robert Smerdon is thankful Craig Williams is back riding in Melbourne this week after a successful working holiday riding on contract in Japan. Williams will be in action at Caulfield on Saturday....

Katelyn Mallyon secured her second Melbourne metro apprentice title when she guided home the Mick Kent-trained Vintage Lad at Sportingbet Park Sandown on Sunday. The victory gave Mallyon a five w...

Pins filly Shopaholic showed last week's win over VRC Oaks winner Mosheen was no fluke when she won the Angus Armanasco Stakes with even more authority at Caulfield.Trained by Danny O'Brien, Shopah...