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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...

All racing attention shifts to Rosehill for the running of the 2000m Group 1 Rosehill Guineas and an accompanying set of lesser Group races. I am not a great fan of betting in the Rosehill Guineas ...

All racing attention shifts to Rosehill for the running of the 2000m Group 1 Rosehill Guineas and an accompanying set of lesser Group races. I am not a great fan of betting in the Rosehill Guineas ...

In the November PPM, I chronicled my journey into the Victorian State Library to obtain a copy of the very first formguide I kept for research purposes and expressed surprise at how little informa...

On April 25 I celebrated my 40th “official” year as a punter, which I calculate via the fact that the first formguide I kept for research purposes was from an Anzac Day meeting of 1967. Since the...

This is a WARNING. You are about to read an article that is not for the faint-hearted. In fact, its brutality is comparable to that depicted in Braveheart! Read on at your own peril. Over the ye...

The leading US racing media commentator, Andy Beyer, is rightly known as the 'guru' of speed handicapping. He says that he quickly realised that calculating 'speed figures' was the most powerful t...