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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...

He might have taken 18 starts to break his Group 1 duck, but Buffering is now making a habit of making trips to the Group 1 winner’s stall, reports Racing Victoria. The Queensland warrior made it ...

It always pays to have a look at the photo form prior to a race just to remind you of the strength of the form in the printed guides but it also helps to look after the races as well. The last race...

It always pays to have a look at the photo form prior to a race just to remind you of the strength of the form in the printed guides but it also helps to look after the races as well. The last race...

Gold Coast three-year-old Fab Fevola got the prize but the honours were with Sydney-bound runner-up Funtantes following her courageous comeback at Doomben.Fab Fevola made amends for his shock defea...

How do you feel when confronted with column after column of trackwork gallops in your weekend Sportsman? Like most punters, I guess you're a bit baffled. What do we make of the times each horse cl...

There is a lot written about punting off course these days that is absolute nonsense. Most punting is conducted off course, and, unless the tracks have a sudden rush of blood and do something real...