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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...

Trainer Pat Duff has drawn favourable comparisons between Steel Zip and his million dollar earner Hard To Catch ahead of the gelding's crucial test for a trip interstate at Eagle Farm on Saturday.S...

Consistent gelding The Big Steel has scored a timely win at Flemington ahead of next month's Warrnambool Cup.Trained by Matt Laurie, The Big Steel ($16) posted his sixth win in 17 starts in Monday'...

Underrated sprinter Steel Zip will test his winter carnival credentials with a trip to Newcastle for next month's Group Three Newmarket Handicap if he performs satisfactorily at Doomben.Trainer Pat...

Steel Zip will be out to break a two-and-a-half month metropolitan drought for trainer Pat Duff in the Listed Sunshine Coast Guineas at Caloundra on Saturday.Duff's last metropolitan win was with S...

Autumn plans for The Big Steel are in grave doubt with the five-year-old suffering muscle soreness which has ruled him out of the Victoria Cup at Caulfield.Trainer Matt Laurie was hoping to have th...

Trainer Matt Laurie is confident he has The Big Steel close to peak fitness in his attempt to maintain his unbeaten record at Flemington in Saturday's Comic Court Handicap.The grey, who has won six...