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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...

Trainer Nigel Blackiston has Melbourne Cup aspirations for Right Of Refusal after his runaway win in the VRC St Leger Stakes at Flemington.Blackiston, who learned his trade from Bart Cummings, like...

Saturday's Chipping Norton Stakes will be a litmus test for the rest of Melito's autumn carnival aspirations.The reigning NSW Champion for her deeds as a sprinter last autumn, Melito's focus this t...

Melito's Apollo Stakes win has opened up her autumn options with the Chipping Norton Stakes the next test for the rejuvenated mare.The NSW Horse of the Year for last season, Melito gained the honou...

The wheel turned full circle for talented filly Melito who claimed a dominant win in the Group Two Furious Stakes at Randwick after a controversial last-start defeat.The Gerald Ryan-trained Melito ...