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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...

In-form trainer Kelly Schweida is confident lightly-raced colt Why So Expensive is destined for better things, providing he can get inside the horse's head.Why So Expensive continued Schweida's rec...

  IN THE wake of the embarrassing on-course fluctuation failure on Saturday, bookmakers have also demanded an explanation from Racing Queensland about the official prices being sent off course, re...

Chris Waller declared ageless Jim Cassidy still deserves a place among the world's elite jockeys after two contrasting rides produced winning results for the premier Sydney trainer."I've never look...

There's a horse racing in Victoria named Bencreato. Many punters will know of him - and recognise him. Why? Because Bencreato always wears vivid lime-green blinkers when he races. You can't miss ...

In the last two parts of this series, I’ve taken you through 26 areas which pinpoint ways you can give your betting an extra edge, enabling you to hit top gear. This third and final article in the...

When a day's racing is over, what do you do? If you've you've lost, you may well toss the formguide away, flop in an armchair and turn the channel from SKY to the ABC. You just don't want to think...