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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 Herman Brown has given up on getting Bankable fit for Sat's $750,000 LKS Mackinnon Stakes 2000m but still hopes to run him in another race over the carnival. Brown says Bankable, has a hoof...

The international assault on the Melbourne spring is building up steam...Bankable and Mourilyan are the latest stayers to be confirmed. They'll race under Herman Brown's banner in Australia. Bankab...

David Hayes has been forced to put the Melbourne Cup preparation of Changingoftheguard on hold after the English import developed an abscess in his near-hind hoof.Changingoftheguard was noticeably ...

Glyn Schofield says he's impressed with his Melbourne Cup mount Mourilyan. GS was aboard when Mourilyan worked nicely at Sandown on Thursday morning. The Herman Brown-trained gelding worked with s...

The final contingent of overseas horses for this year's spring carnival has arrived safely in Melbourne.The flight from England was delayed several hours but all five horses travelled well accordin...

Trainer Herman Brown wants Mourilyan ridden with utmost patience in Tuesday's Melbourne Cup. The stayer has been heavily backed in the last week and Brown and jockey Glyn Schofield are confident he...