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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...

Improving filly Soapbox scored a stylish victory at the metropolitan meeting at Gosford on Wednesday to provide Exceed and Excel with his 19th Australian juvenile winner of the season,reports Tara ...

The Peter Snowden stable believes filly Applegate is worth another chance in Saturday's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield after having no luck when resuming.The stable won the race for th...

Top trainer Tony Cruz declared the best of Blazing Speed was still ahead after the gelding upset the big names in the Stewards' Cup, while Italian rider Mirco Demuro had the Jockey Club to thank ...

Helmet, Sheikh Mohammed's top class juvenile and Classic-winning miler has been retired to stud, reports www.breednet.com.au.Helmet, the record-breaking winner of last year's G1 Caulfield Guineas a...

Mornington trainer Jason Petch will try to land his first Saturday Melbourne victory with speedy filly Hooness this week at Caulfield.Petch bought Hooness, a David Hayes cast-off, for $42,500 at a ...

Mornington trainer Jason Petch will try to land his first Saturday Melbourne victory with speedy filly Hooness this week at Caulfield.Petch bought Hooness, a David Hayes cast-off, for $42,500 at a ...