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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...

Favourites win around 30 per cent of races and lose the other 70 — which is why betting every favourite in Australian horse racing grinds you down. A writer going by Mr Money took that apart for Pr...

This page will be devoted to the performances of clear cut (no equal) favourites on both Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan tracks. All CCF, both Midweek and Saturdays, will be dissected for PPM re...

This page will be devoted to the performances of clear cut (no equal) favourites on both Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan tracks. All CCF, both Midweek and Saturdays, will be dissected for PPM re...

Now do the Melbourne favourites perform in September? PPM's  expert Statsman has done some research and in this article reveals the facts. Be careful of backing favourites during September--exce...

Now do the Melbourne favourites perform in September? PPM's  expert Statsman has done some research and in this article reveals the facts. Be careful of backing favourites during September--exce...

The favourite looks like the safest bet in Australian horse racing, and across 660 races counted one at a time it lost 25 per cent on turnover — even though the first favourite won 174 of them, mor...