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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...

The narrow edge of a good draw is enough to make David Hall-trained  Heroic Guru the one to beat as he shoots for three straight in the Hong Kong Club Challenge Cup (1,650m) at Happy Valley tonigh...

I've had enough of the vicious, spiteful nonsense oozing from the oily lips of the UK's racing handbag John McCririck, the bloke who dresses up like a clown and spits out venom and hatred against A...

The Celebration Cup has been a great launching pad for horses headed towards Group One success in the past and John Size-trained Contentment  gets his chance to add himself to that list at Sha Tin...

The New Zealand arm of Mike Moroney's stable posted its second feature win in 10 days when Tinseltown took out the Group Two Counties Cup at Pukekohe to confirm a second attempt at the Wellington C...

The 150th Melbourne Cup next year will carry a record $6 million in prizemoney and feature an identical three-handled loving cup to that won by Phar Lap in 1930.With the support of the state govern...

The 150th Melbourne Cup next year will carry a record $6 million in prizemoney and feature an identical three-handled loving cup to that won by Phar Lap in 1930.With the support of the state govern...