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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...

Richard Gibson-trained  Gold-Fun  found  Glorious Days  just too strong on international day but looks ready to follow a well-worn path by winning the Group One Stewards' Cup (1,600m) at Sha ...

An Old WarningNothing's certain in racing.Surprised at this comment? Of course not.But for many years now I've warned against the outside barriers in sprints at Rosehill.Except when it's wet. Then ...

The feast of Class One racing at Happy Valley continues tonight with the Lai Chi Chong Handicap (1,000m), and smart sprinter At Moment In Time gets his chance for revenge. The Danny Shum Chap-shing...

Kathy O'Hara has become just the fourth Australian woman to ride a Group One winner, appropriately claiming the Coolmore Classic on Ladies Day at Rosehill.The Ron Quinton-trained Ofcourseican conti...

Aptly-named Melbourne Cup contender Tuesday Joy has been put through her paces at Randwick ahead of her spring campaign.Owned by John Singleton, the Gai Waterhouse-trained mare has missed the past ...

WAY TO GO?Let's call this gentleman John.John uses online services to make his investments and he only bets on Wednesdays and Weekends.He always tries for what we have more or less coined the "Lott...