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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...

Australian Derby winner It’s A Dundeel will make Melbourne his home in the Spring.  

Sepoy wins the Blue Diamond - well, what else did we expect? Darley may well be doing great business in Australia, picking up major races here, there and everywhere (with sweet treats in between) b...

  It hasn’t taken long for TAB customers to start backing their favourite horses

The outlook's grim for punters on Wednesday - at least those who'll be fronting up with their money to bet at the Canterbury meeting. Here's the latest report from STC track chief Lindsay Murphy: '...

It's warming up...Tony Vasil has decided that his promising 3YO Altius will target the 2500m Grp 1 Victoria Derby, worth $1.5 million, at Flemington on Oct 30. He'll avoid the Caulfield Guineas and...

It’s A Dundeel’s stunning victoryover Atlantic Jewel in the Grp 1 Underwood Stakes has propelled him well into Cox Plate contention.  TAB price assessors reacted by slashing his price from $9.00...