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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...

RED Cadeaux  has arrived in “stupid good form” as he embarks on a fourth bid for the Melbourne Cup.  The UK-based iron horse is one of 19 international horses that arrived on Saturday at the We...

LAST year's Caulfield Cup runner-up  Dandino  and stablemates Seismos and Guest Of Honour have reportedly taken the trip to Melbourne in their stride, much to the relief of connections, reports th...

Sportingbet Cox Plate invitee Side Glance finished third in the Group 1 Arlington Million (2000m) this morning (AEST time) and the indications are that trainer Andrew Balding is keen to pursue a ...

CRAIG Williams will partner UK stayer  Dandino  in the $3 million Caulfield Cup.  Williams early on Saturday informed Darren Dance, whose Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock races the eight-yea...

It's tight - Australia's weight-for-age championship may still be 34 days away, but already there is a logjam of Group 1 horses queuing up for a Sportingbet Cox Plate start. While connections of ...

Semi-retired veterinarian Ian Shaw has dabbled in training thoroughbreds for the past 42 years with limited success, but he had his day in the hot Canterbury sun Saturday when winning the New Zeala...