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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...

Third Decs are out - and there are still 47 horses trying to fit into the final Melbourne Cup field of 24. Eleven internationals remain in contention for the big race.1 Above Average (IRE) (Lee Fre...

Blue Diamond hunting...Patinack Farm has nine of the 64 third declarations for the Blue Diamond Stks 1200m (Grp 1) at Caulfield on February 25 race. They include Melbourne winners Ferment and Real ...

Plans for UK trainer Luca Cumani's spring hopefuls Drunken Sailor and Manighar will become clearer after tomorrow's third declarations for the $2.6m Caulfield Cup. Cumani's travelling foreman Charl...

The Cups...85 horses are left in the Melbourne Cup after second declarations on Tuesday. It's the same number as at the same stage last year. Seven overseas horses remain. They are the Dermot Weld-...

Will well-fancied stayer Precedence be able to sneak into the Caulfield Cup field without another start? This is what trainer Bart Cummings is hoping for. That1.5kgs penalty he got for his JRA Cup ...

Weight penalties have assured Melbourne Cup starts for the Bart Cummings-trained Allez Wonder and South Australian galloper Alcopop.Allez Wonder jumped from 49th in order of elimination to 17th aft...