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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...

Talk about domination! Gai Waterhouse runners grabbed victory in 15 of the 17 barrier trials at Randwick on Monday. Montana Flyer beat the highly regarded More Joyous into 2nd in the ninth trial th...

A bigger Caulfield Cup field? Don't count on it. The Age newspaper reports: 'Melbourne Racing Club's plans to extend the Caulfield Cup field by two look likely to be thwarted due to safety concerns...

People You MeetI just took a few minutes off at the races this afternoon to put this up and share it with you.I always seek out interesting people to talk with. So many punters at the racetrack hav...

When we talk about punting we have to, alas, talk about illogicality and irrational thinking. We must talk about cashing the small bets and losing the big ones, about catching little 'fish' and mi...

Recently I selected Hunza's Ace to win for the Computer Service. He ran nowhere, but turned up the next Tuesday, still in town, and won at 7-2 after 9-2 was bet. I wasn't very impressed. It set m...

Recently I selected Hunza's Ace to win for the Computer Service. He ran nowhere, but turned up the next Tuesday, still in town, and won at 7-2 after 9-2 was bet. I wasn't very impressed. It set m...