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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...

WHILE leading jockeys Damien Oliver and Corey Brown yesterday chose not to appeal careless charges incurred on Melbourne Cup day, fellow rider Ben Melham was more fortunate when he had a two-month ...

Stewards have reminded jockey Ben Melham to follow trainers' riding instructions after completing an inquiry into his tactics on Cross Street at Flemington on New Year's Day.Racing Victoria steward...

Apprentice Tim Bell's appeal against a nine meeting suspension he copped at Wyong on Dec 23 has been dismissed. The Racing NSW Appeal Panel, however, has reduced his suspension by one meeting. Bell...

Ben faces the music...Ben Melham - riding in the best form of his career - faces a big moment in his life on Thursday. He'll gived evidence at an adjourned inquiry into his riding tactics on Cross ...

Looks like we will be seeing the enigmatic Star Witness taking on Black Caviar in Sat's big Grp 1 Newmarket Hdcp 1200m. The colt had a brilliant workout at Flemington on Tuesday and then came the n...

Stewards are always the best jockeys...Ben Melham has been charged over his handling of beaten fav Numen Lumen at Mornington on Monday. Melham is accused of failing to improve his position on two s...