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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...

Geoff Lane, a former champion Victorian apprentice who became an elite senior rider in Australia and Hong Kong, will be inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame tomorrow night.Lane will be ...

He was renowned for his fighting qualities but this was one battle Northerly could not win.The champion galloper was euthanased on Wednesday night, aged 15, after failing to recover from a severe c...

HALL of Fame trainer David Hayes believes the current whip riding rules allows "cheats to prosper'' and urged the Australian Racing Board to reconsider its position on the contentious issue, report...

Victorian racing has lost a character – and one of its finest horsemen –  following the death of Ross McDonald . The popular trainer, who had been battling ill health for many months, died on Tue...

Trainer Con Karakatsanis vowed to bring Black Piranha back to Queensland next year for a record-breaking third Stradbroke Handicap attempt after the sprinter etched his name into the record books a...

Trainer Con Karakatsanis vowed to bring Black Piranha back to Queensland next year for a record-breaking third Stradbroke Handicap attempt after the sprinter etched his name into the record books a...