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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...

It's not hard to understand why Luke Nolen is not keen to talk to the media about his Black Caviar ride. He's had enough of the same old questions! So have I. Let's remember one important point - h...

Chad Schofield will take the ride on the promising  Divan  when he resumes riding at Flemington on September 13.  He finishes a 27-meeting suspension, incurred at Caulfield on August 16, on t...

Trainer Herman Brown wants Mourilyan ridden with utmost patience in Tuesday's Melbourne Cup. The stayer has been heavily backed in the last week and Brown and jockey Glyn Schofield are confident he...

Bye bye Gai...Gai Waterhouse's right-hand lady, Robyn Hartney, has resigned to join Patinack Farm as racing manager next month. Hartney has been with Waterhouse for five years. Her new role at Pati...

It's pronounced Stee-arka-vitch. Let's get that straight, because it was the name on everyone's lips after a fairytale result to today's Patinack Farm Blue Diamond Stakes.'Veteran' Adelaide apprent...

Glen Boss will ride lightweight hope Graceful Anna in Sat's $1 million Grp I Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm. Graceful Anna completed her Stradbroke prep with a sound effort into 4th behi...