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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...

With less than 8 hours to go, the morning betting market on Sat's Caulfield Cup has the UK raider Kirklees the fav at $7.00 (6/1) followed by NZer Daffodil $8.50, then Cima de Triomphe, Predatory P...

In fast month's P.P.M. we began our 100 Great Betting Ideas series. Sixteen ideas were listed. In this second article, we take a look at another 20 betting tips. Staking is a key part of any punt...

• The Safe Plan • The Market Movers • The Easy Plan Because you are reading this magazine, I assume that betting on the races is one of your considerations for using your leisure time. You want...

Sixty per cent of all races are won by well-backed horses. I don't think anyone will disagree with this claim. If it is, indeed, correct, and I have no reason to doubt it, there does not seem to b...

Wide open...That's the early betting on the 'second go' Australian Cup at Flemington on Saturday. TAB Sportsbet has Heart of Dreams at $6.50 from the newly-reinstated Shocking at $7.50. The market ...

  We have now reached the 'climax' time of our foray into the 'Ratings Guide' approach, the rules of which I've outlined in recent PPM articles. What we have to try to do now is to find the ri...