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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...

Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...

Bound for Australia? The Steve McKee trained filly Pussy Willow looks like a readymade Kiwi challenger for Oz spoils. She landed the biggest two-year-old prize of the season so far in NZ when she ...

Will it be the Yankee invasion next? Chris Waller is looking at buying US gallopers. He's already pioneered buying stayers out of Europe and developing them into Aussiewinners and now the canny NZe...

Jumps racing really is doomed...The hysteria that's blown up after the death of Siroccan Storm at Warrnambool on Wednesday only highlights what the sport is up against. Today we're likely to see th...

Corey Brown was due to test Chris Waller's unknown British import Warringah in a track gallop at Sandown on Tues morning. A start in the Melbourne Cup seems to be increasingly likely for the stayer...

From NEIL FRANKLYNSO PRISTINE5m : Trainer - Richard Collett16 starts : 4 wins : 4 placesWin distance range : 1400m - 2200mTrack conditions won on : Fast/Good : DeadRapidly improving Zabeel stayer w...

From NEIL FRANKLYN in AucklandTOPARIO3f : R Patterson : New Plymouth8 starts : 2 wins : 2 placesWin distance range : 1400m - 1600mTrack conditions won on : Dead : HeavyThis filly is developing in t...