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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...

October 10: Caulfield Guineas dayBest of luck to you all - looks like another great days racing.PENSIONER PLAN selectionsPlan 1: WILD CAT selections - do not backCaulfield 7-13-4-11-7-8-1-7-3Rosehi...

Any punter taking an in-depth look at the form for a race will usually be taking into account how long it has been since a horse had its last start. It's generally accepted that the longer the pe...

XXXX I am having computer problems re podcast: I may have to do a blog this week. XXXXáOctober 31, 2009 Pensioner Plan SelectionsPlan 1: Wildcat System Selections - not to be backed: just baseline ...

James Given is mapping out an ambitious and exciting programme in 2011 for his globe-trotting duo of Dandino and Indian Days.The trainer is targeting major international events such as the Singapor...

Can it be true? Racing Victoria is reported to be seriously considering fixing Monday as a day off for racing. At the moment, it's a proposal and, no doubt, the TABcorp mob will want to throw in a ...

THERE are still no horses qualified to compete at the start of the 2010 jumps season in just 10 days, so it was fitting that yesterday's launch of the resurrected sport at Warrnambool was a low-key...