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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...

Trainer Clinton McDonald is planning to have a fun summer with veteran galloper Pacino.McDonald's family owns the eight year-old and he is striking form at the right time after six runs in the spri...

In this final section of a review of the unconscious factors that may adversely affect our judgement when gambling, we will look at only one factor - but a very important one. The myth of skill. ...

Hold onto your hats because the first faltering steps of the 2010 Spring carnival is about to lurch into action this Saturday. Although the official racing year starts on August 01 the unofficial s...

In this third article, I want to address the issue of what punters expect from their betting. Do we want too much, not enough? Are we reasonable or unreasonable in our expectations? Now some of y...

In racing, and betting, patience often pays off. Patient trainers wait for the right races, patient punters, too, wait for the right races in which to bet. How patient are you? If you’re impatien...

In racing, and betting, patience often pays off. Patient trainers wait for the right races, patient punters, too, wait for the right races in which to bet. How patient are you? If you’re impatien...