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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...

Eric Musgrove can find several reasons for giving quiet achiever Stop The Traffic his chance in Saturday's $200,000 AV Hiskens Steeplechase at Moonee Valley.The Zabeel gelding has won six country s...

Eric Musgrove can find several reasons for giving quiet achiever Stop The Traffic his chance in Saturday's $200,000 AV Hiskens Steeplechase at Moonee Valley.The Zabeel gelding has won six country s...

RACING NSW stewards yesterday sent a timely reminder to jockeys not to embrace, shake hands or contact anyone before they weigh in. Hugh Bowman and Jim Cassidy were both fined $100 under Australi...

When Does The Garbage Stop?Yes every year it happens. Several of our trainers, and several well-known tipsters and radio jocks, fall over themselves to tell us how much better some horse (that we'v...

Allan Sharrock believes Opie Bosson will need to produce a faultless ride on Hollindale Stakes winner Shez Sinsational to give the New Zealand trainer his first Australian Group One victory in the ...

Most punters are aware that the last race of a meeting is traditionally known within punting circles as the "get out stakes". Should a punter be losing coming into the last race, it is referred to...