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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...

A pleasing midweek hitout alongside Karuta Queen has topped off Diamond To Pegasus for his race return, but trainer Tony Sergi says Sydney's wet weather is a genuine unknown for the stakeswinning y...

Glyn Schofield says Flying Minstrel has all the attributes needed of a high class racehorse as the colt prepares to put his unbeaten record on the line at Wyong on Sunday."He's a very smart horse,"...

Trainer Pat Carey has confirmed Cannonball will make his stable debut at Caulfield on Saturday but is keeping expectations in check with the former accomplished American sprinter.The six-year-old r...

Buffering's sustained speed is his biggest asset and jockey Michael Rodd plans to make the most of it in Friday night's William Reid Stakes.The four-year-old will be chasing an elusive Group One wi...

Claire Bird has experienced the thrill of Doncaster success watching from the Randwick grandstand, but never from horseback on the hallowed Randwick turf.That could change on Saturday.Bird became i...

Unraced filly Elucidate will fly the flag for leading trainer Peter Moody in the Listed Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield after stablemate Flokkati was confirmed for Adelaide's Dequetteville Stakes...