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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...

We will never know whether  Flame Hero  would have won had he gained clear running last start, but with a suitable step up in trip and against a weaker Happy Valley field, the Peter Ho Leung-train...

The odds won't be anything flashy but three-year-old  Rapper Dragon  should cement his place as one of the rising stars for next season's classics in the Group Three Lion Rock Trophy (1,600m) at S...

The Zac Purton caravan just keeps rolling on, with the Australian jockey stretching his championship lead to 15 at Sha Tin with another winning treble, reports the HK Racing Post (www.racing.scmp...

There isn't a lot of mystery to today's feature at Sha Tin, with  Divine Calling  certain to be at prohibitive odds-on in the Chevalier Cup (1,600m) and looking the winner, reports Racing Post HK....

Brilliant jockey Joao Moreira will have learned some lessons from the Classic Cup last month and that may enable  Able Friend  to turn the tables on his stablemate  Designs On Rome  in the $1...

from Racing Post (www.racing.scmp.com)The "Kings of the Valley" were back with a bang last night - with leading trainer Caspar Fownes and jockey Brett Prebble combining to win the feature race with...