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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...

Jockey Michael Rodd confessed he felt like throwing up mid-race as he rode Efficient to victory in last year's Melbourne Cup.Rodd said he had been wasting hard to ride a lightweight runner at the C...

Young Warrnambool trainer Matthew Williams would have to be one of the nicest guys in racing, and after Uxorious' gutsy win in the time-honoured Wangoom Handicap yesterday, the one they call 'Beetr...

In my time as a punter, I've done some pretty stupid things. I guess we all have at one time or another. I recall that my very worst mistake (or DUMB move) occurred at a Flemington meeting back i...

In my time as a punter, I've done some pretty stupid things. I guess we all have at one time or another. I recall that my very worst mistake (or DUMB move) occurred at a Flemington meeting back i...

Recently, a friend rang me up declaring he had a special at the Bankstown (NSW) harness racing meeting that night. The horse, he told me excitedly, had excellent form, had drawn barrier one and ...

Recently, a friend rang me up declaring he had a special at the Bankstown (NSW) harness racing meeting that night. The horse, he told me excitedly, had excellent form, had drawn barrier one and ...