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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...

A huge fire at a nearby paint factory has forced Friday's Canberra race meeting at Thoroughbred Park to be abandoned.

Jockey  Luke Currie has been stood down from riding after returning a positive swab, leaving connections of Tuscan Fire looking for another rider for the stayer in the Caulfield Cup.

Organisers of a mass sell-off of horses owned by mining magnate Nathan Tinkler say it is not a fire sale, reports the ABC.It says: Mr Tinkler's Hunter Valley-based Patinack Farm is offloading aroun...

Talented mare Bird Of Fire will go into the Group Three Eclipse Stakes at Sandown as the form horse after trainer Tony Vasil decided to extend her spring campaign on the back of two stakes wins.Vas...

Will we see a real Yankee raider in Melbourne in 2010? US sprinter Cannonball, a bold 2nd in the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, is in Hong Kong for the big HK Sprint in December, and connect...

Is support building for the WA contender Scenic Shot in the Cox Plate? TAB Sportsbet's Glenn Munsie told PPD: 'We can report significant interest this afternoon...Bets taken today include $10,000 @...