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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...

Systems: A Few Thoughts.I just finished an article for an upcoming issue of PPM. In it I paid tribute to the delightful Ian Barns, who passed on a few years back after for many years editing his ow...

Here They Come, But Fewer of Them.Let's start with a warning: hold onto your wallets!The Melbourne Cup has closed its noms with 230 received, down from 297 last year.The Caulfield Cup has 227, from...

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...

Mark Cramer is one of America's most respected writers on horse-racing handicapping. He's a rebel when it comes to handicapping, and likes to fly in the face of accepted theories. His books Kinky ...

Hong Kong's most anticipated equine raid will go ahead, with the world's highest rated horse, Able Friend, given the green light to step into the global arena with a Royal Ascot campaign next mont...

FOUR - THE HARDEST ONE OF ALL.Does it get any harder than this?Ask me a month ago, and I was confident that I had a huge chance of pulling off a long shot for the Melbourne Cup with Shoot Out or th...