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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...

How good is So You Think? It's the big talking-point question in the wake of his barnstorming spring form. Veteran turf scribbler Max Presnell is holding back fulsome praise. He says in his SMH col...

The 2013 Irish St Leger winner  Voleuse De Coeurs  will remain in training with the Melbourne Cup as her aim, rfeports Racing Network.  Mike Moroney said the five-year-old mare would be spelle...

Despite his ordinary run in the Rosehill Guineas, Gold Coast star Shoot Out will tackle the AJC Derby 2400m at Randwick on Sat week. Trainer John Wallace is willing to forgive Shoot Out's defeat at...

It's all worries for All Silent in the leadup to the Grp 1 Newmarket Hdcp on Saturday...Trainer Grahame Begg is shrugging off All Silent's ordinary run in a Flemington jump-out on Tuesday, even tho...

No worries, the lights are still on...David Hayes is brushing off the shock flop of his star 3YO Irish Lights in the Rubiton at Caulfield. The filly ran a very ordinary 6th. DH explains: 'I think w...

That was an impressive performance by Frankel at Royal Ascot - scoring by 11 lengths in a Grp 1 race is rare. He did it in explosive fashion. But maybe a doubt or two remains. The time was nothing ...