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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...

It was pleasing to see Michael Rodd make something of a comeback with two winners at Caulfield last Saturday (his first city winners since March!) and it could be the start of an extraordinary few ...

John Moloney believes the expanses of Flemington will suit smart filly City Of Song who could earn a trip to the Queensland winter carnival if she performs up to expectations on Saturday.The Bel Es...

Promising three-year-old Silver Falls is set to enhance what has become a strong country form race when he resumes at Moonee Valley.The gelding won his race debut at Geelong but at his next start f...

Horsham trainer Mick Clark is enjoying the ride with his in-form mare Let's Be Happy who shoots for her fourth straight city win at Flemington on Saturday.Clark is struggling to explain the improve...

Many of us go through life thinking we understand something, or assuming something to be right, when all the time we are wrong. I spent 30 years of my life believing that the word 'nonchalant' was...

Can you ever imagine yourself winning a billion dollars? Okay, not a billion Australian dollars but a billion Hong Kong dollars? This is about $200 million in Australian currency. Sounds like a fa...