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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...

When a Practical Punting reader asked which form factors matter most, he listed twelve — and The Optimist turned the answer into a two-part masterclass. In Part 1, Gordon covers the first three: da...

Understanding harness racing form can be a tricky task - all those mile rates and class changes. My point is, don't concern yourself too much with the intricacies but concentrate on some plain bu...

Understanding harness racing form can be a tricky task - all those mile rates and class changes. My point is, don't concern yourself too much with the intricacies but concentrate on some plain bu...

Every winning punter is really doing the same thing: reading a race for the signs that matter. In this episode of Practical Punting, Gordon breaks down the 10 key factors the professionals weigh in...

Doing the form requires decision after decision after decision. The more decisions we make the more likely we can miss something which is why keen punters have all sorts of systematic methods in pl...

Talk to any number of racing professionals and ask them to name the key 10 factors in their form analysis and you are likely to receive differing answers! It's the nature of the game. Everyone has...