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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...

Is there a more courageous racehorse in Australia than Zipping? Yes, the winner is exceptional and for that reason alone we need to pay homage to Zipping for another gutsy effort to record his thir...

Star New Zealand three-year-old Jimmy Choux will be given a solid hitout on Tuesday ahead of his bid for a first Australian Group One victory in the Rosehill Guineas.The colt will have two starts i...

Systems: A Few Thoughts.I just finished an article for an upcoming issue of PPM. In it I paid tribute to the delightful Ian Barns, who passed on a few years back after for many years editing his ow...

Magic Millions Sprint winner Temple Of Boom has suffered a setback putting a trip to Sydney for the Group One Galaxy at Randwick in doubt.Trainer Tony Gollan has been working overtime to get Temple...

Zenyatta cemented her place in racing history with a stirring triumph in the Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday, a victory that left the great mare unbeaten in 14 starts.Her last-to-first triumph un...

As a wizened Englishman named Mick has been heard to sing, 'Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste'. And a man of wealth and taste I am, of course, if wealth is measured...