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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...

Perth Cup winner Cats Fun is set for an unlikely showdown over the jumps with last year's Adelaide Cup winner Capecover after an impressive win at Sandown.They are set to clash in Warrnambool's Kev...

Tom Miscannon might live in Florida, but he is midway through a trip that will see him visit more racetracks in south-east Australia in three weeks than most Victorians will see in a year.  It is...

Last month we began this series which focuses on the 10 systems and staking plans that a group of PPM contributors has voted "the best" of the past 17 years, though they all said they could easily...

Last month we began this series which focuses on the 10 systems and staking plans that a group of PPM contributors has voted "the best" of the past 17 years, though they all said they could easily...

Paradise is Darwin in July. As you all know I was off last week for a few days visiting my daughter, with my partner Susie, and what a great break it was. After arriving on the red eye special into...

I recently returned from a lengthy holiday to find my "mailbox" at PPM bulging with letters from readers. It’s amazing how much mail this magazine generates! Among the letters were several requ...