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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...

This week Warwick Farm hosts two races for 3yo's where it is absolutely vital the punter really, really and I will say it again, really keeps their hands in their pocket unless they can find a chan...

Happy Birthday and Happy New Resolution!No I'm not going to preach. Saturday August 1 is all horses' birthday here in the southern hemisphere. That's the Happy Birthday wish above.What about the Ne...

In Australian horse racing, backing three horses in a race dramatically shortens the odds you are really betting — the board price is not your price. Philip Roy answered a reader who wanted to d...

Okay, jump through this hoop, then jump through that one, then stand on your hands...This just about sums up the raft of new conditions imposed by Racing Victoria on the jumps racing fraternity in ...

Picking winners is one thing; backing them correctly is another — and in Australian horse racing, staking is where a good selector hands the year back. In April 1987, writing as Statsman, one Pract...

Trifectas are the most popular form of 'exotic' bet in Australia. Millions of dollars are wagered on this type of bet each week. Punters like the trifecta because it offers the chance of a big col...