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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...

Let's face facts - Americain should have won the Australian Cup at Flemington. Maybe that 'cold' ride was just a little too cold from Steven Arnold? Trainer David Hayes could hardly hide his disapp...

SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT AND STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING.Yes, however.Again we are faced with comparing apples with oranges. Horses of a different period.On one scale of argument, how could anyone arg...

One of the hardest things to master in our game is the “art” of keeping one’s balance at the racetrack whether ahead or behind. Granted, we most often lose this precious balance when behind for t...

One of the hardest things to master in our game is the “art” of keeping one’s balance at the racetrack whether ahead or behind. Granted, we most often lose this precious balance when behind for t...

US racing expert George Kaywood recognised early on, in the 1990s, that the Internet was going to play a pivotal role in the world of international horseracing in the future. His bestseller Handic...

Joe Takach has emerged as America’s leading authority on the body language of racehorses. Joe’s Beat the Beam video (one of the best-selling horseracing videos of all time) is highly regarded an...