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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...

One thing is sure where place betting is concerned: The punter who likes to bet this way cannot be guaranteed which way the dividends are likely to go. Sometimes you will get a poor dividend, ot...

One thing is sure where place betting is concerned: The punter who likes to bet this way cannot be guaranteed which way the dividends are likely to go. Sometimes you will get a poor dividend, ot...

One thing is sure where place betting is concerned: The punter who likes to bet this way cannot be guaranteed which way the dividends are likely to go. Sometimes you will get a poor dividend, ot...

What can we learn from history? According to Henry Ford, very little. But I am convinced that old Henry, while he might have known a thing or two about the internal combustion engine, knew very li...

The Victoria Turf Club came in for some criticism when it decided its new race in 1861 would be a two-mile handicap with many saying it should be at set weights. The fact the Melbourne Cup remains ...

During my overseas jaunt I have been able to update the Pensioner Plan experiment figures I was struggling to finish just before I left. For those not interested this is going to be quite a long bl...