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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...

Trainer Bill Smart hopes the benefit of a last-start ride on Silent Surround has jockey Damien Oliver primed to improve on his Thousand Guineas record.Oliver, who has won the Group One fillies' fea...

Trainer Bill Smart hopes the benefit of a last-start ride on Silent Surround has jockey Damien Oliver primed to improve on his Thousand Guineas record.Oliver, who has won the Group One fillies' fea...

Resolute stayer Synchronised helped Tony McCoy complete a grand slam of National victories in the Welsh version at Chepstow.The event, carried over from Christmas, will not earn the champion jockey...

Aidan O'Brien probably expected a less inquisitive welcome to Melbourne than the one he got at Sandown.How are your horses? How will they run in the Melbourne Cup? Will you be cheating?Fit. Well. I...