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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...

Well, what a day. I could not have scripted a worse start for collects as they were far and few between for most of the day. This is not a bad thing, by the way, as it is a bad run we want to test ...

Well, what a day. I could not have scripted a worse start for collects as they were far and few between for most of the day. This is not a bad thing, by the way, as it is a bad run we want to test ...

Inject some flair into your form analysis? Now what, you may be asking, does that mean? It's the same thought I had when a friend of mine urged me to do just that the other week. I'd been telling...

Earlier this year I struck what I call the DROO (Dreaded Run Of Outs) in Perth where, I must admit, I thought I had my punting under control. You all know what happens: you back them for the win ...

Earlier this year I struck what I call the DROO (Dreaded Run Of Outs) in Perth where, I must admit, I thought I had my punting under control. You all know what happens: you back them for the win ...

The argument is as old as racing. Should you bet level stakes or progressive? If your answer is the former, then that’s easy. There’s little more to do. You just front up, and you have your bet on...