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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...

The big battle...There are 15 runners in Wed's Geelong Cup but only Once Were Wild (15th in order) and the imported French horse Americain (23rd) are already assured of a Melbourne Cup start. A win...

Profound Beauty is not certain to run in the Melbourne Cup...That's the main news from the UK on Tuesday. Even though the Dermot Weld trained mare ran well in the Irish St Leger the speculation is ...

Waller's big charge...Chris Waller has nominated nine of the 87 horses entered for the Epsom Handicap, to be run at Randwick in October. His entries include Metal Bender, Triple Honour and Danleigh...

Moody blues! Peter Moody continues to hand out some tongue-in-cheek chat to the UK racing press as D-Day nears for Black Caviar's Royal Ascot assignment. PM says UK superhorse Frankel had never bee...

Never-say-die Gai Waterhouse isn't about to concede the Cox Plate to So You Think. She's predicting her mare More Joyous will give the hot fav the race of his life. MJ turned in what Gai says was a...

Luke Nolen, fresh from Wednesday's treble at Ballarat, is confident Bring Me the Maid can make an impact on Saturday's Thousand Guineas, especially if there's some moisture in the Caulfield track...