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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...

We can learn a lot from greyhound analysts around the world. In my long time in the greyhound game I have derived many ideas from reading what others have to say. Pender Noriega is one of the gre...

We can learn a lot from greyhound analysts around the world. In my long time in the greyhound game I have derived many ideas from reading what others have to say. Pender Noriega is one of the gre...

Sydney's premier trainer Chris Waller declared he hadn't seen a better apprentice than Chad Schofield in his decade in Sydney racing at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.That praise came on the day the in-...

Trainer Gary Portelli has spent as much time psychoanalysing Something Anything as he has on the horse's physical preparation and reckons he has got him figured out.The five-year-old has been consi...

In this series of articles, we’ll be looking at the favourite approaches of a wide range of international professionals. We want to know about their pet ploys, their staking ideas, and even th...

In this series of articles, we’ll be looking at the favourite approaches of a wide range of international professionals. We want to know about their pet ploys, their staking ideas, and even th...