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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...

Trouble in paradise...Shane Dye is facing an inquiry in Mauritius for his ride in a Cup race last Saturday...The race was won by fellow Australian jockey Dan Nikolic aboard The Cardinal. The probe ...

Stathi Katsidis hops aboard one of Military Rose's Golden Slipper rivals when he rides Hinchinbrook in Sat's Grp 2 Pago Pago Stakes. Suspension forced the Qld jockey to miss the winning ride on Gol...

Two horses won at 12/1 and 50/1 in the same Sydney spring. Neither was a fluke, and neither was a secret. The reasons were sitting in the form guide the whole time, in plain sight, for anyone who s...

HE WAS the pin-up boy early last spring despite his small stature, long hair and bony appearance, but a new-look December Draw is ready to retake the headlines when he reappears in Saturday's group...

THE metropolitan jumping season ended on a high for Ciaron Maher, Steven Pateman, Trent Wells and Fran Houlahan yesterday, but if jumps advocates have their way next year, the season finale might t...

I don't mind progress, it's change I don't like...Tradition is out the window with Moonee Valley's $150 million redevelopment plan. The club envisages a longer home straight (in a different positio...