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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...

Blake Shinn became the eighth jockey to ride a Melbourne Cup winner for master trainer Bart Cummings when he produced a brilliant tactical race on Viewed to narrowly hold out English-trained stayer...

As we embrace the new millennium, a term called "time poor" has become a catchphrase to describe the relationship developing between stressed workers constantly under pressure to deliver profits f...

I was really caught out when fellow writer Keith Roth emailed me recently and asked why I had never written an article with the above title. I simply didn't have an answer, yet it is one of the bi...

Last month I promised to look at Adelaide and Brisbane in this second part of our history excursion. Also we have to consider the Sydney Cup. In fact, let's look at the cups in detail. We must fir...