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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...

Wags are suggesting trainer Tony Vasil lose some weight and return to being a jockey. They say it's the only way he will have his horses ridden the way he wants. Vasil copped a $500 fine for a heat...

Melbourne Cup favourite Septimus has escaped a penalty for his Irish St Leger win and is set to make the trip to Australia pending final approval of quarantine arrangements.Trainer Aidan O'Brien is...

Melbourne Cup favourite Septimus has escaped a penalty for his Irish St Leger win and is set to make the trip to Australia pending final approval of quarantine arrangements.Trainer Aidan O'Brien is...

While all the Derby attention has been on Jimmy Choux, another Kiwi has been quietly going about his business before he attempts to upstage the star three-year-old at Randwick on Saturday.Roger Jam...

Last month I promised to look at Adelaide and Brisbane in this second part of our history excursion. Also we have to consider the Sydney Cup. In fact, let's look at the cups in detail. We must fir...

When Lonhro failed to win the Cox Plate on October 25 his defeat spelled the end of a massive campaign to anoint him our latest "champion". Most of the media commentators were on the Lonhro bandwa...