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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...

Last time I pondered whether to run another “Horses to Follow” segment after the small loss achieved with my group of hopefuls in the autumn. However, I was reading a column from British writer Rob...

David Hayes is convinced Our Aqaleem is a genuine Group One weight-for-age candidate following his gallant first-up win in Australia after a lengthy injury layoff.Placed third in the 2007 English D...

Ilovethiscity will not be the only three-year-old to have his Doncaster Mile prospects assessed in a traditional weight-for-age lead-up at Rosehill on Saturday.While the Randwick Guineas winner has...

The autumn carnival was short-lived for Carlton House  

God Has Spoken confirmed his standing as one of Perth's best chances in the Railway Stakes with a heart-stopping Peters Stakes win on Saturday.One of four winners at the meeting for leading trainer...

Kathy O'Hara has become just the fourth Australian woman to ride a Group One winner, appropriately claiming the Coolmore Classic on Ladies Day at Rosehill.The Ron Quinton-trained Ofcourseican conti...