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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...

From NEIL FRANKLYNSAHARA4m : R Frost : Otaki12 starts : 1 win : 3 placesWin distance range : 1600mTrack conditions won on : SlowI've followed this mare's career fairly closely and I was beginning t...

Robert Smerdon was glad he decided not to scratch Beyond Pardon due to the heavy conditions when the gelding bounced back to form with a narrow win at Caulfield.The trainer was mystified by Beyond ...

Two horses won at 12/1 and 50/1 in the same Sydney spring. Neither was a fluke, and neither was a secret. The reasons were sitting in the form guide the whole time, in plain sight, for anyone who s...

Consistent sprinter Beyond Pardon will back up from a Moonee Valley victory as the top qualifier in the All-Victorian Sprint Final at Flemington.Trainer Robert Smerdon said the $150,000 was too tem...

Outstanding mare Alverta will begin her final racing campaign in the toughest way possible, against champion Black Caviar in Saturday's TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick.Trainer Paul Messara is realistic...

Two false starts trying to get Beyond Expectation back to the races have trainer John Nisbet on another weather alert ahead of Saturday's Randwick meeting."I've had to scratch him twice already bec...