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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...

Simon Zahra declared exciting two-year-old Sweet Little Lies had improved and was ready for her campaign-defining test in the Blue Diamond Preview at Caulfield.By Elusive Quality, who sired last ye...

How NOT to Win the QuaddieSunday was a slow day, and after the ordeal of the long Villiers drive home the night before, I amused myself keeping an eye on the races and on the selections.No names. n...

Caulfield Cup winner Descarado has copped a 1.5kgs penalty for the Melbourne Cup. It gives the Gai Waterhouse-trained 4YO exemption from the ballot for the and leapfrogs him to the top of the order...

BABIES GALORE!New season, new names.BUT what do we know about them?In one word, nothing.Well of course we know what most of them cost.Trouble is, the pricey ones sometimes aren't what they're crack...

There's no doubting the John Moore-trained Military Attack is the horse to beat in the Happy Valley Vase (1,800m) tonight, but his supporters at short odds could get a healthy taste of their hearts...

A major part of the punt involves risk. This is not ground breaking news but the punters who availed themselves of the $7.60 available on Betfair for Shoot Out last Saturday felt quite vindicated w...