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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...

Helmet's half-brother Epaulette stamped himself as the Darley operation's big hope for back-to-back Golden Slipper wins with a determined first-up victory in Sunday's Black Opal Stakes in Canberra....

Last year's Black Opal Stakes certainly didn't go to script for jockey Tommy Berry.Berry went to Canberra with the expectation of claiming the $250,000 Black Opal (1200m) on raging favourite Karuta...

The Black Opal Stakes is the key target for promising 2YO Butt I'm Ready after his eye-catching win at Rosehill. Trainer Gary Portelli says: 'We always thought he'd be a nice three-year-old. He's s...

Blue Diamond Stakes winner Samaready has displaced Raceway as favourite for the $3.5 million Golden Slipper following her brilliant win in Victoria's premier two-year-old race.But Raceway's trainer...

Golden Slipper prospect Karuta Queen is likely to miss the $250,000 Black Opal 1200m at Canberra on March 13 and instead tackle the Grp 3 Sweet Embrace Stakes (1200m) at Randwick. Trainer Neville L...

Cavalry Rose helped punters get the cash in the 2YO Inglis Classic at Rosehill Gardens. Opening at $3.50 she was crunched into $3.00 with punters only really wanting her and runner-up Diamond Earth...