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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...

WHAT YOU KNOW... AND WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW...It's too easy to let the papers do your work for you.So simple. You read about a horse you've never heard of, starting at an unfamliar venue, and with a h...

Unbending rules, bad publicity...Sometimes the actions of officialdom beggars belief...Latest reports say that Victorian jockeys are on the warpath after RV stewards banned injured rider Kate Mally...

EARLY TO BED..."Early" can be clever. If YOU'RE smart!For what it's worth, I always maintain a separate bank for the big prepost racing.I don't, or I try not to, bet in the days coming up to a race...

Gai Waterhouse has cut short an overseas trip and is expected to arrive in Sydney on Friday following the death of her mother Valerie Smith.Mrs Smith had been in ill health for some time and died e...

We all make silly mistakes when betting. It's part of the game, isn't it? No matter how hard we try, no matter how many promises we make to ourselves, we keep on repeating history! A pal was moan...

I don't like big fields.I make one exception, and that's "The Race That Stops a Nation". The value is there in the Cup, and it can reward the time and effort.But those big fellas at Brisbane were h...