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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...

Merry Christmas and A Happy Boxing Day!I do hope your Chrissie Day was a bottler, and that it all ended safely and happily.So what's on the agenda for the weekend?A special bet?One you've been swea...

A section of electricity cable has been removed from the paddock area at Newbury following the deaths of two horses at the course on Saturday.Fenix Two and Marching Song were about to be mounted by...

Canberra trainer Nick Olive is confident he has chosen the right horse to give him his second Weetwood Handicap winner in three years at Toowoomba on Thursday.Olive had his first success in the fea...

Prepare yourself for the winter! As you read this in the merry month of April, the sun may well be shining. In a couple of months it's far more likely to be cold and wet (well, maybe only a bit we...

MOONEE VALLEY I love Moonee Valley. I'd go there anytime. It's easy to get to, as any Melburnian knows. Just get a tram from Elizabeth Street, or Swanston Street, and ask the conductor. A goo...

SANDOWN When Sandown was opened in 1965, even those of us who were not Victorians were fascinated and thrilled by the new track. The baby in racing soon established a niche for itself, racki...