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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...

What's coming up for Scenic Blast after Newmarket? Trainer Dan Morton is weighing up his options in Japan, Australia and Hong Kong for after Scenic Blast's run in the Darley July Cup at Newmarket n...

Australian Horse of the Year Scenic Blast finally bade farewell to British shores on Tuesday morning when flying out of Cambridge airport en route to the latest leg of the Global Sprint Challenge i...

He once had a motor like a Rolls Royce but it's not purring any more.Those were the words from veteran jockey Shane Scriven after he rode Scenic Blast in a track gallop ahead of the sprinter's wint...

Mark Zahra is the new jockey for superstar sprinter Scenic Blast when he tackles next month's Grp 1 Sprinters Stakes in Japan on Oct 4. SB's regular jockey Steven Arnold can't take the ride because...

Going well...Scenic Blast and Takeover Target delighted their connections when working on the July course in Newmarket on Friday morning in preparation for the Group 1 Darley July Cup on July 10. T...

International glory bid...Racehorse of the Year Scenic Blast is still in England being prepared for a big Japanese World Series sprint in October. He's due to arrive in Japan in the next few weeks ...