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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...

Leading jockey Glyn Schofield will be sidelined until at least Boxing Day after suffering a heel injury in a fall at Warwick Farm.Schofield was booked to ride the Grahame Begg-trained last-start wi...

Leading jockey Glyn Schofield will be sidelined until at least Boxing Day after suffering a heel injury in a fall at Warwick Farm.Schofield was booked to ride the Grahame Begg-trained last-start wi...

Group One winning filly Streama will be joined by her less experienced but talented stablemate Appearance in Saturday's Surround Stakes on their home track of Warwick Farm.The Group Two Surround St...

Apprentice Ashley Thompson had a mixed day at Sandown, landing a winner before suffering an arm injury which cost him a double.Thompson scored on Bartonelle ($2.25 fav) for Kyneton trainer Sue Nayl...

Apprentice Alex Stokes, one of three riders involved in a provincial race fall at the weekend, is hoping to ride on Tuesday.Stokes was treated for shock following a fall at Newcastle on Saturday wh...

Michelle Payne is looking forward to the week ahead after finding her best form at the weekend with four city winners, including a double at Moonee Valley on Sunday.Payne, knocked about by a dose o...