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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...

They're calling it the foreign legion...Half of next month's Melbourne Cup field will be made up of overseas-trained horses. That's the prediction, anyway. It's been confimed that Dermot Weld's Pro...

International trainers have accepted the challenge to try to win the 150th Melbourne Cup with a star-studded entry for the $6 million race.Cups legend Bart Cummings has 12 nominations in his attemp...

International trainers have accepted the challenge to try to win the 150th Melbourne Cup with a star-studded entry for the $6 million race.Cups legend Bart Cummings has 12 nominations in his attemp...

International trainers have accepted the challenge to try to win the 150th Melbourne Cup with a star-studded entry for the $6 million race.Cups legend Bart Cummings has 12 nominations in his attemp...

International trainers have accepted the challenge to try to win the 150th Melbourne Cup with a star-studded entry for the $6 million race.Cups legend Bart Cummings has 12 nominations in his attemp...

THE high Australian dollar, extremely generous - by European standards - prizemoney and the status of the Melbourne Cup as the world's premier staying race are all continuing to make the Victorian ...