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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 trainer Peter Moody capped off a memorable day when Almodovar completed a three-state treble with his victory in the Galilee Series Final at Caulfield.Ridden by Linda Meech, the Pins geldin...

WHEN Nathan Tinkler began lavishing a fortune on racehorses he was unabashed in his ambition: he wanted to become the most powerful man in the sport, says The Age in what it calls an exclusive repo...

Blake Shinn's return to riding after disqualification switches to Sydney on Wednesday.Out for most of last year because of a ban for illegal betting, Shinn hasn't ridden at a Sydney race meeting si...

MELBOURNE CUP-winning jockey Blake Shinn has spent the past couple of months with his family at Kilmore preparing for ''a low-key return'' to the sport he left in disgrace, reports the Sydney Morni...

VICTORIA'S leading trainer Peter Moody spent much of last week planning for the future with a $3 million-plus spending spree on yearlings on the Gold Coast, but this week it's down to immediate bus...

AUSTRALIA'S glamour galloper So You Think will continue his multimillion-dollar massacre on the nation's biggest bookmakers if he wins today's $6 million Melbourne Cup at Flemington, reports Steve ...