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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...

Metropolitan winner The Verminator has been given a 2kgs Caulfield and Melbourne Cup penalty. It's the same penalty issued to the past two Metrop winners Speed Gifted and Herculian Prince and take...

Cop this...The Bart Cummings trained Precedence has been handed a 1.5kgs penalty for the Sydney Cup following his impressive Manion Cup win at Rosehill. He will now carry 54kg sin the 3200m Grp 1 r...

Handicapper strikes...Glencadam Gold has copped a 2kgs penalty for both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups following his impressive Metropolitan win at Randwick. He now has 53.5kgs in both Cups. It s...

The tip: Expect at least a 1.5kgs penalty for the Caulfield Cup for Speed Gifted, winner of the AJC Metropolitan. This will ensure he gets a run in the big race. The Lee Freedman-trained stayer has...

Caulfield Cup winner Descarado has copped a 1.5kgs penalty for the Melbourne Cup. It gives the Gai Waterhouse-trained 4YO exemption from the ballot for the and leapfrogs him to the top of the order...

Craig Williams will take over from Damien Oliver on favorite Vigor in the Caulfield Cup. Trainer Danny O'Brien says: ' The 51kgs was always going to be a bridge too far for Damien Oliver and in loo...