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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...

THE Victoria Racing Club has increased the prizemoney for the group 1 Mackinnon Stakes to $1 million in a move tipped to attract international runners to the weight-for-age race, reports The Age.It...

An 82-year-old grandfather is leading the defence of the Melbourne Cup from an annual international invasion which has globalised Australia's most famous horse race.Bart Cummings was among those wh...

Racing Victoria chief handicapper Greg Carpenter says that So You Think's chance to win a Melbourne Cup may have gone.The Bart Cummings-trained champion, who won his second Cox Plate two weeks ago ...

Betstar's Alan Eskander says Australian punters should embrace the internationalisation of the Melbourne Cup as debate continues over this year's foreign invasion which should ensure our most famou...

Going the early crow...Racing Victoria execs are already talking of international interest in the 2011 Melbourne Cup! Apparently, Americain's win has stirred passions. Several top international tra...

MELBOURNE Cup emergencies are not on the radar of the Victoria Racing Club, repoerts Racing Network. While emergencies have successfully worked with the Caulfield Cup - last week all four emerg...