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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...

UK stayer  Gatewood  has all but booked himself on the first shipment of European horses to Melbourne.  Gatewood  went down in a photo finish in the Group 2 Prix de Deauville (2510m) at Deauv...

Legendary French trainer Andre Fabre has won all the big races in Europe and now OTI Racing is hoping he can add a Melbourne Cup to his amazing CV with a horse called Only A Pleasure, reports Rac...

Another French affair...John O'Shea has bought a French galloper formerly with Melbourne Cup winning trainer Alain de Royer DuprÚ...O'Shea purchased Caroun, a 3YO colt by Montjeu, from the Aga Kahn...

Last year's Melbourne Cup winner Americain is back in the winning business! The accomplished stayer won the Listed Prix de Reux 2500m at Deauville by a length. The six-year-old son of Dynaformer sw...

Scone trainer Paul Messara says his top mare Alverta may race on next season. Alverta turned in a slashing performance to run 3rd to Starspangledbanner in the July Cup at Newmarket UK after racing...

There's been a sudden change of plans for UK-based, Aussie-owned stayer Gatewood following release of Melbourne Cup weights. OTI Racing had decided to run Gatewood at Ascot on British Champions d...