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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...

Max gets the message...Those ridiculous bans on on-course computers have copped a sledging from veteran racing scribbler Max Presnell. In his SMH column he says: 'Racing, particularly in NSW, is la...

High profile trainers Mark Kavanagh and Danny O'Brien have been banned for three years and four years respectively for administering cobalt to horses for performance-enhancing purposes. Both Kava...

Here comes the overkill...Latest reports say the Victorian racing watchdog has called on the Victorian government to ask police to set up a racing corruption squad as part of the biggest proposed o...

The ode that accompanies this article may be sung to Beethoven's Choral Symphony or the lesser - known Elegy in F Minor by Poulenc, Though a requiem would be more appropriate, a requiem to the enj...

First it was Max Presnell giving smart-aleck apprentice Daniel Ganderton some 'advice' (see earlier Hot Gossip item) and now another veteran scribbler (retired, almost) Ken Callander is handing out...

A $10 MILLION hole in the prizemoney budget for 2009-10 has to be filled by the end of the financial year, the new Racing NSW board says, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It says: As revealed in t...