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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...

Wednesday's metropolitan meeting at Mornington had to be abandoned after race four due to poor visibility because of persistent rain.With three of the seven races still to be run at the Melbourne R...

Heavy rain has forced the cancellation of Saturday's Eagle Farm races.The meeting, which was to feature the Listed Falvelon Handicap (1200m), was called off after the track was declared unsafe foll...

Too wet! Friday's Port Macquarie meeting is OFF. Heavy rain has made the track unfit for racing. Officials may now reschedule the meeting or abandon it.

Another meeting off...Tuesday's meeting at Nowra NSW has been called off due to the rain-affected state of the track. More rain fell overnight.Winter blues...Sydney's champion jockey Nash Rawiller ...

Oh, oh....Sat's Randwick meeting may have to be axed because of rain-affected conditions. The track copped 32mm of rain on Thursday. Track boss Dave Hodgson rated the surface on Friday morning at H...

Sunday's Bendigo meeting has been called off due to the waterlogged state of the track. Stewards made the decision after a 7.45am track inspection.Champion trainer Peter Moody will aim the impressi...