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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...

It seems nothing can stop Toowoomba apprentice Amy Taylor from trying to achieve her personal goals for the racing season after her victory on Rumba Jack at Eagle Farm.Taylor, 21, whose ambition is...

We continue our Form Forum features with a chat between P.B. King and Philip Roy about aspects of form that can often prove misleading. PHILIP ROY (PR): Let’s start this discussion with a few tho...

I have always held the belief that winning form is good form. And it is – generally speaking! The one thing that is a fact, an unassailable one, is that last-start winning form has to be taken ser...

How prepared are we, as punters, to bet more than one horse per race? It's a question I pose to you very seriously because it's been my experience that most punters cannot handle such an approach....

How prepared are we, as punters, to bet more than one horse per race? It's a question I pose to you very seriously because it's been my experience that most punters cannot handle such an approach....

Before we place a bet, each one of us goes through a mind game in determining (a) which horse or horses to back and (b) how to back them. It is a mind game of sometimes infuriating complexity, and...