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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...

Kiwi trainer Shaune Ritchie is quietly confident his filly Keep The Peace is good enough to hold her own in today's AJC Australian Derby at Randwick. He says: 'It is obviously going to be difficult...

Big bets went astray wehen Master of Design blitzed the stars in the TJ Smith at Randwick. TAB Sportsbet says: 'Punters were blown out of the water...Opening up a $71 earlier in the week, Master Of...

RON QUINTON knows plenty about winning three-year-old fillies' classics, taking away a handful as a jockey before winning the 2002 VRC Oaks with Bulla Borghese as a trainer, reports the Sydney Morn...

Pat Carey will focus on the Melbourne spring carnival after emerging stayer Cedarberg caused another upset at the Sydney Carnival to win the Group One BMW on Saturday.Cedarberg was sent out a $26 c...

Veteran warhorse Zavite has caused a major upset in the Ranvet Stakes with the 100-1 shot fighting off Caulfield Cup winner Descarado to take the Group One prize by a half-head.It was the second sh...

Hugh Bowman knew next to nothing about Daffodil when he guided the New Zealander to a dominant victory in the AJC Australian Oaks last year.But the top Sydney rider has a much better understanding ...