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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...

The team behind the spring cups bid of English contender Mad Rush have likened the stayer to last year's Melbourne Cup runner-up Purple Moon.Francesca Cumani said Mad Rush, trained by her father Lu...

A late change of training plans for English Melbourne Cup hope Mad Rush should be seen as a sign of the horse's good health and fitness, according to his trainer.Mad Rush had been scheduled to trav...

Favourite backers have been piling into Azkadellia to win  Saturday's  Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm.   The talented mare is $4.20 into $4 since the barrier draw this morning and is holdin...

WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN.I'm consolidating what we know and what we have seen/can see at present, in regard to the upcoming carnivals. I should be able to put it on here within a day or two...

MARK Kavanagh said yesterday that Atlantic Jewel was not being rushed in her comeback preparation, so a Melbourne autumn program is off the agenda for the unbeaten filly, reports Andrew Eddy in The...

WHAT YOU KNOW... AND WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW...It's too easy to let the papers do your work for you.So simple. You read about a horse you've never heard of, starting at an unfamliar venue, and with a h...