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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...

LEGENDARY race caller Wayne Wilson died today. He was 66.  Wilson had been the voice of Queensland racing for more than three decades.  He died, after a long battle with cancer, on the eve of...

Legendary Hall Of Fame trainer Bob Hoysted has died at the age of 88. Hoysted is best remembered in Australia as the trainer of the great  Manikato , who among many amazing wins recorded five con...

George Hanlon, a three-time Melbourne Cup winner and one of Australia's greatest trainers of staying horses, died yesterday at the age of 92 after a long illness.Hanlon, who had spent 18 months at ...

Doriemus, winner of the 1995 Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, has been put down following a paddock accident, reports Racing Victoria. OTI Racing tweeted the news on Sunday afternoon, saying they we...

Victorian racing has lost a character – and one of its finest horsemen –  following the death of Ross McDonald . The popular trainer, who had been battling ill health for many months, died on Tue...

Hay List , the brilliant sprinter who won three Group 1 races, over $2.5 million in prizemoney and a legion of fans as  Black Caviar’s  chief rival, has been put down after an ongoing battle with...