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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...

Sydney’s boom three-year-old  Savvy Nature  will not run in the $2 million ATC Australian Derby (2400m). Trainer John O’Shea unveiled radical plans for  Savvy Nature , reports Racing Ne...

I n-form Randwick trainer John O’Shea is a little wary about running his exciting three-year-old Savvy Nature at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. The last start impressive winner of the Group 3 $150,...

Complacent has swept into Victoria Derby favoritism with  TAB.COM.AU . The Peter Snowden-trained 3YO is $18 into $6.50 to take out the Derby following his victory in the Gloaming Stakes at ...

Interesting ChangesI think something of great value could have come out of that last blog. You'd have seen that your horse was either 1-2-3 on the turn or forget it... well, there's more to it than...

Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente will headline some of the biggest names in Australian racing at Friday’s Randwick trials, reports Racing Network. He will trial in the first heat, tackling stable-ma...

From MURRAY BELL in HK Racing PostCaspar Fownes describes himself as a competitive person by nature, but the energy and focus he put into landing his second trainers' premiership was real eye-of-th...