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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...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh is doing his best to douse the hype surrounding his top 3YO Shocking as he readies him for the Queensland Derby 2400m at Eagle Farm, probably on a rain-affected track. He says...

Mark du Plessis has hardly been swamped with opportunities in his current stint, but trainer Andreas Schutz has given him a great chance to upgrade and take the main race at Happy Valley tonight on...

It's going to come down to whether Brett Prebble can get him out of the gates, but the John Moore-trained Straight Gold looks well up to making a winning Class One debut on the all-weather track in...

An exasperating run of injuries has marred Mark Zahra's career over the past couple of years but he's hoping to put that behind him this spring, starting on Wednesday at Sandown where he has three ...

An exasperating run of injuries has marred Mark Zahra's career over the past couple of years but he's hoping to put that behind him this spring, starting on Wednesday at Sandown where he has three ...

Over the period of time I’ve been writing for the Practical Punting Monthly, there have been numerous references to position in running, either in words or by the various tables that have accompan...