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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...

QUIETLY MAKING IT BIGI was at Rosehill on Saturday and I met a chap whom I'd written about in PPM for the new February issue. He was pleased I'd kept his identity right out, and wanted me to meet a...

Veteran turf scribe Max Presnell has launched a scathing attack on the Australian Turf Club.

We haven’t talked much in recent years in PPM about “Dutching”.  Oddly enough, I find very few punters seem to refer to it all. Is it a sign of the times? Have punters decided they simply can’t co...

We haven’t talked much in recent years in PPM about “Dutching”.  Oddly enough, I find very few punters seem to refer to it all. Is it a sign of the times? Have punters decided they simply can’t co...

We haven’t talked much in recent years in PPM about “Dutching”.  Oddly enough, I find very few punters seem to refer to it all. Is it a sign of the times? Have punters decided they simply can’t co...

I attended a private form forum the other week. The attendees were all punters who have made a living from the game for some years now. It’s not the first time we have all got together. Such gath...