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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...

No stranger to international success, Craig Williams is looking to enhance his reputation on the world stage even further in the coming weeks.Williams will be riding in Japan for Katsumi Yoshida ov...

How long since you bothered to read a stewards' report? If you're like most punters you never read them, and that's a great pity. Stewards' reports can be terrific guides to future winners. In t...

With 2008 racing ahead and the autumn carnivals looming, ?it’s time adopted “cool” as a punter. That is, you ?look and act the part to impress your friends at the races. Here are just a few hand...

This time last year I was gearing up for a lot of things that didn’t happen. The culprit was a hideous disease called equine influenza, which decimated the thoroughbred livestock industry in New S...

It remains one of the oldest and most challenging arguments in the entire racing world. I am speaking, of course, about the investor’s decision as to how he places his bets. You will read any numb...

It remains one of the oldest and most challenging arguments in the entire racing world. I am speaking, of course, about the investor’s decision as to how he places his bets. You will read any numb...