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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...

Ever since Andy Beyer and Howard Sartin’s speed theories were imported from the USA into Australian racing, a doting band of time and speed aficionados have chipped away at weight-based principles...

Racing is based on weight. Virtually from the first race ever run - whenever that was - weight would have played a key role. Weight is the great equaliser. It can help horses win by its very ab...

The Kris Lees-trained Samantha Miss thwarted Sebring's triple crown bid and the trainer hopes Uate can do likewise to the Darley operation in Saturday's Champagne Stakes.Lees prepared Samantha Miss...

When Does The Garbage Stop?Yes every year it happens. Several of our trainers, and several well-known tipsters and radio jocks, fall over themselves to tell us how much better some horse (that we'v...

Talk to any number of racing professionals and ask them to name the key 10 factors in their form analysis and you are likely to receive differing answers! It's the nature of the game. Everyone has...

The most widely-asked question among racing fans must be the one that goes, 'How on earth can I beat the races? 'It's a question we try to answer in this magazine. That we are successful, to...