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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...

Do you judge a horse’s chance only on its best form? If so, what approach do you make to the performances which are obviously not in keeping with the horse’s true ability? These questions are oft...

Queenslander Swiss Ace gave Caloundra jockey Ken Pope the racing day of his life with an upset win the Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield.After being headed by Lucky Secret halfway up the straight the Sec...

Queenslander Swiss Ace gave Caloundra jockey Ken Pope the racing day of his life with an upset win the Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield.After being headed by Lucky Secret halfway up the straight the Sec...

Star Queensland sprinter Swiss Ace will return home from Sydney this week and miss the Group One TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick.Caloundra trainer Mick Mair made the early call on Tuesday not to run th...

Brilliant sprinter Eight Bills is set to give Dean Yendall a feature win in the Listed Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool on Wednesday.Yendall, 36, returned to race riding with one mount at Sandown on...

Brilliant sprinter Eight Bills is set to give Dean Yendall a feature win in the Listed Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool on Wednesday.Yendall, 36, returned to race riding with one mount at Sandown on...