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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...

RACING New South Wales chairman John Messara has no doubt the state's thoroughbred industry can lead the Western world in showcasing ''the sport of kings''. ''We can never surpass the likes of Hong...

Glen Boss is convinced that Smart Missile is a world beater. Had he not been a late scratching in the Golden Slipper he'd have beaten Sepoy in the 2YO classis, according to Bossy, who just had to s...

Sir Henry Cecil declared Frankel to be the greatest horse he had ever set eyes upon after his colt turned the much-publicised clash with Canford Cliffs into an almost hopeless mismatch in the Susse...

Interesting to see Melbourne trainer Colin Little with a runner at Thursday's Wyong meeting. It's more out of desperation than anything else. His 3YO Kapu Star has refused to go straight the Melbou...

AS PROOF of how things can change so quickly at the elite level of sport, highly talented apprentice Jason Maskiell tomorrow returns to racing in Victoria with four mounts at Caulfield after a roll...

Helmet did everything right when he scored a sizzling victory in the Caulfield Guineas Prelude, setting up his assault on the $1 million Caulfield Guineas.Trainer Peter Snowden said the at times wa...