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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...

Unbending rules, bad publicity...Sometimes the actions of officialdom beggars belief...Latest reports say that Victorian jockeys are on the warpath after RV stewards banned injured rider Kate Mally...

Will we see female jockeys dominating raciing in a few years' time? Kate Mallyon reckons we will. On the comeback trail from some grim injuries, Kate has been sounding off about the 'weight power' ...

The Queensland government will spend millions to keep the Magic Millions carnival on the Gold Coast.Organisers of Magic Millions Racing Carnival and Yearling Sales have threatened in the past to mo...

The Queensland government will spend millions to keep the Magic Millions carnival on the Gold Coast.Organisers of Magic Millions Racing Carnival and Yearling Sales have threatened in the past to mo...

The Queensland government will spend millions to keep the Magic Millions carnival on the Gold Coast.Organisers of Magic Millions Racing Carnival and Yearling Sales have threatened in the past to mo...

The Queensland government will spend millions to keep the Magic Millions carnival on the Gold Coast.Organisers of Magic Millions Racing Carnival and Yearling Sales have threatened in the past to mo...