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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...

A hefty jackpot makes Tuesday's Triple Trio at Sha Tin an enticing proposition and the John Size-trained sprinter  Golden Addiction looks a solid banker in the opening leg, says the Racing Post...

I knew the lure of Fox Classics would get to me eventually and here I am watching/listening to an episode of "Gunsmoke". Things will only get "worse" because I have only recently started subscribin...

Memo to TVN's motor-mouth Richard Callander: Give up the 'he's got the bikkies' cliche will you? Screaming it out every race, usually before and after, must be driving viewers mad. I know it annoys...

Michael Rodd will ride star Queensland filly Military Rose when she returns to racing in The Rosebud (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday week. Trainer Gillian Heinrich engaged Rodd because regular ride...

There's been early money for Estonian Princess ($6 to $5) at Randwick on New Year's Day, according to the latest price changes from TAB.com.au.

At this stage, they are all key meetings but Wednesday night's all-weather card looks a significant moment in the trainers' championship and Caspar Fownes looks set to get the best of it in the fi...