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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 SHOCKING RETURNVigor ran a great race and is on target. Heart of Dreams is a real chance for the Cox Plate. BUT the horse that caught that pair and won Saturday's Makybe Diva Stakes did it with p...

Last month I talked about ways and means of studying the form in greyhound races and put forward some ideas to help the form student come to grips with the intricacies of the formlines. I outline...

Athenium has always shown great potential for trainer Sean Woods and the lightly raced five-year-old looks set to claim the final leg of Sunday's HK$4 million Triple Trio - the Dr G Handicap (1,600...

The Brassel family is well-known throughout Australian racing due to their long association with the print media. Tom Brassel was for 20 years turf editor of the now defunct Daily Mirror and is no...