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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...

NSW racing was its worst again on Saturday...No photo-finish camera operative for the first race and a very contentious decision made to award the race to the outside horse when a dead-heat would h...

A photo-finish that had punters confused at Randwick on Wednesday was an even bigger headache for stewards who were forced to declare a dead-heat because of the quality of the picture.Racing NSW ch...

Moudre gained compensation for his connections for the frustration of being balloted out of the Melbourne Cup when he won Saturday's Group Three Queen's Cup at Flemington.Apart from the $150,000 fi...

THE Victoria Racing Club has switched next weekend's Turnbull Stakes meeting to Sunday, but will not seek compensation from the AFL despite an estimated loss of several hundreds of thousands of dol...

The photo-finish camera at Rosehill was repaired in time for the Premiere Stakes following the debacle in the opening race of the day.And lucky it was, with the Hawkes partnership-trained multiple ...

The photo-finish camera at Rosehill was repaired in time for the Premiere Stakes following the debacle in the opening race of the day.And lucky it was, with the Hawkes partnership-trained multiple ...