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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...

De Lightning Ridge has smashed the long-standing Randwick 1000-metre record in the Group Two Challenge Stakes in a blistering display of speed reminiscent of her two-year-old days.The now four-year...

Trainer Brendan McCarthy had some compensation for losing one of his most promising young gallopers when Circle The Globe led throughout for an impressive win at Moonee Valley.The unraced Sly Stach...

I was really caught out when fellow writer Keith Roth emailed me recently and asked why I had never written an article with the above title. I simply didn't have an answer, yet it is one of the bi...

WHILE the Sydney-trained All Silent is considered the flag-bearer of the Australian contingent to contest Sunday's Hong Kong International Sprint, the veteran Apache Cat is certain to add another d...

Gearing Up for the Biggest StuffThe Caulfield Cup, then the Cox Plate, followed by the VRC Derby and of course the Melbourne Cup. Then there's the Oaks and also we'll see the Mackinnon, and so fort...

Metal Bender signalled he would be a force in the spring's biggest races when he led in a Chris Waller-trained trifecta in the Group Two Warwick Stakes.The triple Group One winner firmed from $23 t...