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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 Tony Vasil says he is feeling his way through awkward race programming with True Tales who will contest the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington.The four-year-old will be having his...

Trainer Tony Vasil says he is feeling his way through awkward race programming with True Tales who will contest the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington.The four-year-old will be having his...

Far too many punters shy away from favourites yet they offer the punter a better opportunity for profit making than the so called "value" horses. Value horses typically are 5/1 plus and for some pu...

Over the years I have taken various positions in debates about favourites and the efficacy of backing them on a consistent basis. I am more and more drawn to the idea that there are ways to capita...

  Over the years I have taken various positions in debates about favourites and the efficacy of backing them on a consistent basis. I am more and more drawn to the idea that there are ways to ca...

When Does The Garbage Stop?Yes every year it happens. Several of our trainers, and several well-known tipsters and radio jocks, fall over themselves to tell us how much better some horse (that we'v...