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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...

The Caulfield Cup has been rocked with the sensational scratching of the second favourite Bande following a veterinary exam at Werribee this morning. Racing Victoria vet Brian Stewart determined ...

How can we define what is "simple" and what isn't when it comes to betting strategies? To begin with, I would say that most of us would have some features of our betting that could do with an oil...

How can we define what is "simple" and what isn't when it comes to betting strategies? To begin with, I would say that most of us would have some features of our betting that could do with an oil...

How can we define what is "simple" and what isn't when it comes to betting strategies? To begin with, I would say that most of us would have some features of our betting that could do with an oil...

There are two words that should hold more significance for punters than most other two words in the English language. I have always called them the "QC" of my racetrack investment and see them as ...

Some eight years ago I wrote an article in PPM which drew attention to the fact that it might not be so important where a horse finished at its last start when it comes to the punting side of thin...