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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 Melbourne Cup bid is 'very much on the cards' for UK stayer Sans Frontiere after his victory in the 2800m Irish St Leger at The Curragh overnight. Sans Frontieres swept down the outside of the fi...

The usually reserved David Payne was a bundle of excitement after emerging juvenile Masquerader rocketed into Golden Slipper contention with a brilliant win in the Group Two Todman Stakes at Rosehi...

The usually reserved David Payne was a bundle of excitement after emerging juvenile Masquerader rocketed into Golden Slipper contention with a brilliant win in the Group Two Todman Stakes at Rosehi...

The usually reserved David Payne was a bundle of excitement after emerging juvenile Masquerader rocketed into Golden Slipper contention with a brilliant win in the Group Two Todman Stakes at Rosehi...

Out you go...Stewards have hit apprentice Jason Maskiell with a careless riding suspension from Sat's Sandown Hillside meeting. They say Maskiell allowed At The Heads to shift in when insufficientl...

Is the Golden Slipper at the mercy of mighty Military Rose? She donkey-licked the 2YO Magic Millions field at the Gold Coast and now, unbeaten in four runs she'll be given a let-up with the Golden ...