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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...

It reads on paper as one of the worst runs of  Alpine Eagle's  career but trainer  Tony McEvoy  described his sixth-placed effort in Saturday's Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) as "bloody good consid...

THE Turnbull Stakes is often regarded as the key lead-up to the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups plus the Cox Plate and a quality list of nominations has been entered for the $500,000 Group 1 race  o...

Tony McEvoy  is not one known for outlandish statements, so when he says  Alpine Eagle  could potentially be the best horse he’s trained - you need to pay attention, reports racing.com. When it ...

Tony McEvoy  is thrilled with how  Cox Plate  fancy  Alpine Eagle  is shaping up for a crack at Australia's weight-for-age championship, but concedew the four-year-old needs a big scalp to get in...

Champion Hong Kong-based jockey Douglas Whyte is on standby to ride Alpine Eagle in Saturday’s Australian Guineas. Tony McEvoy confirmed on Tuesday that Whyte, a 13-time champion jockey in Hong K...

Tony McEvoy  says  Alpine Eagle  is coming along well in his recovery, but thinks it’s unlikely he’ll race in the autumn. Alpine Eagle was favourite for the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes before cracki...