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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...

Jockey Hugh Bowman has not heard from Samantha Miss' trainer Kris Lees this week and that's the way he likes it.The star filly will become the first horse since Angst in 1993 to win all four legs o...

Trainer Greg Hickman believes Samantha Miss is one of the best fillies he's seen but he also knows there is no such thing as a sure thing - especially in the Flight Stakes.Hickman has Flying Tryst,...

Emperor Bonaparte survived a torrid time in Saturday's Gloaming Stakes but trainer David Payne has revealed problems with fellow three-year-olds Stripper and Baci Amore.Stripper came back from her...

Glowlamp is building a reputation as arguably the best maiden in Australia and her task to change that in Saturday's Tea Rose Stakes is a tough one.But trainer Clarry Conners says she is a proven a...

Al's Magic Miss will be out to maintain an unbeaten first-up record on Saturday in a pipe-opener to an early autumn carnival stakes mission.The David Payne-trained filly is unbeaten in two first-up...

In-form trainer Joe Pride believes if there is ever going to be a day when Anatomica can beat super filly Samantha Miss, Saturday is it.The pair clash in the Group Two Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) ...