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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...

Ex-NZer King's Rose was heavily backed early in betting for the Grp 2 1400m Memsie Stakes at Caulfield and justified the early money when it narrowly defeated Heart Of Dreams. Opening at $8.50 last...

Silently justified jockey Hugh Bowman's confidence in her when she came with a barnstorming run to upset favourite Ortensia in a thrilling opening race at Randwick on Anzac Day.The John O'Shea-trai...

Kauto Star made amends for last month's slip-up at Haydock with a third consecutive success in the King George VI Chase at Kempton.Trained by Paul Nicholls and partnered by Ruby Walsh, Kauto Star j...

Trainer Con Karakatsanis no longer has dual Stradbroke Handicap winner Black Piranha in his care but in the past week has produced two promising youngsters with hopes of filling that void.On the ba...

It's a long way from a Sunshine Coast maiden to stakes company but Jason McLachlan is adamant his newest stable star Absalon won't be out of place among racing's elite.Absalon produced a whirlwind ...

Trans-Tasman trainer Graeme Rogerson capped one of the best weeks of his career when Shootoff won the $500,000 Group One Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm.Rogerson won last week's Queensland Oaks with...