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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...

SOMETHING TO WATCH (AND PERHAPS PROFIT FROM)This is a short blog, because I want to make the point and leave you to ponder it tomorrow afternoon.Caulfield is notorious for having differing "running...

Gai Waterhouse prefers the Coolmore Stud Stakes at the end of the Melbourne spring carnival over the Golden Rose as a Group 1 target for Bull Point. The talented two-year-old lived up to his shor...

How much money should you take to the races with you? That may seem like a simple question, but it's a moot point for many punters.

How much money should you take to the races with you? That may seem like a simple question, but it's a moot point for many punters.

How much money should you take to the races with you? That may seem like a simple question, but it's a moot point for many punters.

Watch Out for the Elephant in the Room!A significant amount of money is invested every day of the week on one of the exotics which has captured everybody's attention in the past decade.Of course, I...