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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...

THIS IS EVEN HARDER!Winning is hard.Damned hard.But making it more difficult for yourself is very easy.Just bet midweek.That'll do it, I promise.At present I'm looking at Warrnambool's biggest day....

So THEY Say...Try these:They've backed the topweight.They've come out of the woodwork to back Drongo Junior.They knew what they were doing.When they put their money down they're rarely wrong.They a...

Trevor Bailey won't be distracted by his Group One ambition with Faster Son at the end of the month and hopes to be in the spotlight at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.Bailey is excited about Faster Son's ...

Times can be a tricky conveyance in the horseracing game but if you are going to follow them in anyway you must use times on the same day as your guide. At Flemington last Saturday the Group 3 Auri...

Trainer Peter Moody is confident talented filly Curtana can cope with a seven-day back-up into the Group One Stradbroke Handicap following her Queensland debut in the Group Two QTC Cup at Eagle Far...

Back to Caulfield P.B. Lawrence Stakes Day, in a racing sense at least, is when winter and spring collide. Numerous equine stars invariably return at the first Group 2 meeting of the season, whic...