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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...

Trainer Guy Walter will be a happy man if the Frank Packer Plate tradition stands up again.Walter will run this year's Frank Packer Plate runner-up Orca in Saturday's Group Three Doomben Classic (1...

Chris Munce produced a magnificent rails ride on Yallingup who scored impressively for trainer Guy Walter in the Group Three Frank Packer Plate at Randwick.Walter was elated with the performance fr...

James Packer yesterday became the outright owner of Betfair Australasia when he paid $10 million for the remaining 50 per cent, reports Racing Network. Packer was an original 50-percent sharehold...

A setback prevented Orca from competing in one Derby but everything is falling into place for a crack at another.A grazed knee ended Orca's chances of running in the AJC Australian Derby (2400m) bu...

As Shootoff confirmed his Queensland Derby credentials at Canterbury on Saturday, 2007 winner Empires Choice broke down in the same race and had to be euthanased.Shootoff backed up his last start w...

The hype is underway...Gai Waterhouse reckons her Randwick winner Needs Further is a horse of the future and she's backed up by jockey Nash Rawiller. He says the colt shapes like a serious spring c...