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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...

The  Gai Waterhouse-trained import Fiorente has opened an $8 favourite in TAB's first Caulfield Cup markets.  The former European galloper who finished second in last year's Melbourne Cup is a to...

Forty-five percent of the 173 horses entered for this year’s $2.5 million Caulfield Cup are northern hemisphere bred. This represents a huge difference in the direction of Australia’s trainers wh...

TAB punters have been all over the Chris Waller trained import Weary all week but the biggest bet placed on the galloper has just been taken.  A NSW customer placed a $25,000 wager on the runner...

It ’s not often a trainer has the pre-draw favourite for the $2.5 million BMW Caulfield Cup draw wide but have his chances in the $2.5 million event enhanced but it happened on Wednesdaywith Chris...

Chris Waller’s Boban has stormed into equal favouritism for the Epsom following his win today in the Bill Ritchie at Randwick. Starting the day a $17 chance in the Epsom, TAB immediately reac...

Preferment has attracted plenty of support in the last 48 hours and is now $9 to win the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday.    The Chris Waller-trained four-year-old was $13 on Wednesday morning, bu...