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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 HappensNow and again a day comes up when you wish you'd never bought the form guides, never even got out of bed. This happened to me on May 9.If a raw novice looked at the results, he'd probably...

Imagine that you have gathered from my last few columns that I am not an ardent fan of levelstakes betting. I don't see any sense at all in it unless you have a strike rate that's far in excess of...

For many years now I have used a betting approach that combines my selections in the best bettable races. It's what I call a 'winning edge factor' and it's a form of multiple betting that has ensu...

For many years now I have used a betting approach that combines my selections in the best bettable races. It's what I call a 'winning edge factor' and it's a form of multiple betting that has ensu...

It doesn’t matter how good a punter you are, there will be many times when you will make mistakes. Bad mistakes. Stupid mistakes. The main thing is to learn from them. View the aftermath of your ...

Any punter wishing to bring a sense of regulation to his selection activities could do worse than draw up a simple points-rating plan. Yes, that's what I said – a simple points-rating plan. Nothin...