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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...

There's already fiery feedback from the Sal Perna report into racing's so-called darker side... Victorian Jockeys Association CEO Des O'Keefe vehemently disagrees with Perna's finding that the "per...

Any winner is a good winner? Many would suggest that the question mark is not necessary, that the answer is an obvious and emphatic NO. They would say that to be prepared to take just any odds is ...

No surprise - the Kiwis are really unhappy that the racing press in the UK and Ireland is calling champ So You Think an all-Australian star! NZ Thoroughbred Marketing growls: 'The only blip in trai...

Jumps racing really is doomed...The hysteria that's blown up after the death of Siroccan Storm at Warrnambool on Wednesday only highlights what the sport is up against. Today we're likely to see th...

Ask any serious punter about the virtues of place betting and you will realise it would have been a good idea to bring a chair with you. And a packed lunch as well, with a thermos of coffee. This...

Ask any serious punter about the virtues of place betting and you will realise it would have been a good idea to bring a chair with you. And a packed lunch as well, with a thermos of coffee. This...