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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 YOU KNOW... AND WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW...It's too easy to let the papers do your work for you.So simple. You read about a horse you've never heard of, starting at an unfamliar venue, and with a h...

WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN.I'm consolidating what we know and what we have seen/can see at present, in regard to the upcoming carnivals. I should be able to put it on here within a day or two...

ALL CREDIT. WELL, NEARLY ALL ANYWAY.Sepoy by a country mile.But that scratching!What can we make of it?Not a lot, Spot.It's done. And dusted too. Well and truly.Best on the day, as you know, by a s...

A BIG BELT - OR A BIG CON?I just watched an unraced two year old backed from around fifteens to $2.35 for the first at Flemington on Saturday.I guess every mug in town will now hop on the bandwagon...

Trainer Mark Kavanagh's chances of winning the $1 million Newmarket Handicap with underrated sprinter Undeniably at Flemington on Saturday will largely rest with a jockey he's never met, reports Th...

A Sydney Cup campaign is on the agenda for Ibicenco following his Sandown Cup 3200m win on Saturday. OTI syndicate director Terry Henderson says he hopes Ibicenco will benefit from being trained in...