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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...

Good to see trainer Mick Kent giving Brad Rawiller a deserved ovation. He reckons Brad is totally under-rated. Mick, of course, gives Brad many rides and he's one of the jockey's top supporters. He...

An "extremely thankful" John Moore planned on breaking open a celebratory bottle of champagne last night after the Hong Kong Jockey Club relaxed compulsory retirement rules for trainers, adding p...

 Jake Noonan is off to the UK and will be based with trainer Andrew Balding at Kingsclere in Berkshire, near Newbury racecourse. The young rider is not expecting to set the world on fire in Englan...

Peter Snowden is stepping down from his post as the head trainer for Darley Australia and will set up a base in Sydney with his son Paul. Snowden will remain in his current position until the end...

Wendy Walter has today announced she will cease to operate her training business from July 5. Speaking to her owners on her late husband Guy Walter’s website, Wendy says the loss of Guy as the ke...

DARLEY expects to announce a successor to Peter Snowden “sooner rather later”, says Racing Network. Henry Plumptre, the Australian Managing Director of Darley, said an announcement would not be “...