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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...

Trainer Jake Stephens was left a little puzzled by Alcopop's first Sydney start and hopes the gelding can give him a better indication of how he is going in Saturday's Chipping Norton Stakes.Alcopo...

Trainer Jake Stephens was left a little puzzled by Alcopop's first Sydney start and hopes the gelding can give him a better indication of how he is going in Saturday's Chipping Norton Stakes.Alcopo...

AFTER taking Victorian racing by storm last spring, South Australian stayer Alcopop will race exclusively in Sydney during the autumn in a bid to capture his first group 1 success, reports The Age....

Talented South Australian stayer Alcopop impressed trainer Jake Stephens with a track gallop at Kembla Grange on Saturday which showed he was on target to begin his Sydney campaign in the Apollo St...

WHOBEGOTYOU heads to Moonee Valley on Saturday trying to win his third Dato Dan Chin Nam Stakes, but one trainer not daunted by the task of toppling the favourite is Alcopop's mentor Jake Stephens,...

When a trainer starts talking up last year's star by saying he's 'bigger and better' after a spell...frankly, I start to worry! It often happens that such horses are miserable failures. Alcopop's t...