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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 something of an art to making money from trifecta betting on greyhound racing. This is because the combinations available are limited by the size of the fields (eight runners maximum). Un...

For years I have wondered why Australian horseracing rates the best jockeys and trainers based on their total wins for the season and I have come to the only conclusion possible: it's the easiest. ...

Win-strike rates are fun, believe it or not. How many times have you seen a statement something like this one? "The horse must have a winstrike rate of 25 per cent, a minimum of five starts and m...

There is less than a minute to go before the jump. What to do? Win bet? Exacta? Trifecta? How much on each? What's right? While the questions posed seem simple, they are problems that mathematic...

In this latest article in our Form Forum series, PPM editor Brian Blackwell and The Optimist discuss key aspects of staking and money management. BB: You can pick lots of winners in this game, an...

Some years ago I was introduced to the fascinating world of horse-racing statistics by a chap who had made quite a success of punting. Statistics can open our eyes to so many interesting things, g...