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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...

This page will be devoted to the performances of clear cut (no equal) favourites on both Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan tracks. All CCF, both Midweek and Saturdays, will be dissected for PPM re...

This page will be devoted to the performances of clear cut (no equal) favourites on both Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan tracks. All CCF, both Midweek and Saturdays, will be dissected for PPM re...

I’ve spent years trying to beat the TAB and bookies and I’ve lost my bank more times than I can remember. There have been a few big wins; as many as a man with only three fingers could count on...

I’ve spent years trying to beat the TAB and bookies and I’ve lost my bank more times than I can remember. There have been a few big wins; as many as a man with only three fingers could count on...

Are you a backer of favourites? Or do you avoid them like the plague? It's always an interesting topic where punters gather to discuss racing and its many and varied factors. What can we really m...

The problem, most people say, is that jumps races provide an added 'hurdle' for the punter-your horse may not reach the finish! So true-but how many times does, for example, the favourite fall, lo...