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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...

Promising Patinack Farm filly Pretty Pins may have earned a long-range Group One Queensland Oaks campaign next winter following her grinding Eagle Farm win on Saturday.Pretty Pins gave Gold Coast f...

Tim Bell has revealed his ambition to win his first Group One while still an apprentice with the powerful Patinack Farm stable.Bell hopes his dream will come true during the Brisbane winter carniva...

Robert Smerdon is confident his Caulfield winner Breitling will develop into a sprinh star. He says: 'We rate him pretty highly. He ran well first-up and we thought the winner must be a pretty fair...

Back with a smile...Apprentice jockey Kody Nestor returns to race riding at Canterbury on Wednesday after being sidelined with a foot injury for a couple of months. He'll ride the Allan Denham-trai...

Queensland's flooding rains have put a dampener on the chances of classy colt Shocking contesting next month's Queensland Derby.Trainer Mark Kavanagh said he was "in two minds" about risking the em...

Queensland's flooding rains have put a dampener on the chances of classy colt Shocking contesting next month's Queensland Derby.Trainer Mark Kavanagh said he was "in two minds" about risking the em...