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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...

A late change of training plans for English Melbourne Cup hope Mad Rush should be seen as a sign of the horse's good health and fitness, according to his trainer.Mad Rush had been scheduled to trav...

Damien Oliver has defended his Caulfield Cup ride on the Luca Cumani-trained Mad Rush after England-based trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam criticised his performance, saying he would have won had he got o...

Damien Oliver has confirmed he will take the mount on the Luca Cumani-trained Mad Rush in both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups after riding the English raider for the first time in trackwork at Sa...

It was a mixed day in Melbourne for the international trainers with Aidan O'Brien subjected to a media barrage over tactics, Luca Cumani happy to keep Mad Rush away from Flemington and Jane Chapple...

The Europeans are set to dominate this year's Melbourne Cup with at least eight starters, six of which are in the top 10 most favoured runners.There were 39 horses left vying for the 24 places in t...

An international Melbourne Cup assault that is shaping as the most successful ever goes up another notch over the next few days with the arrival in Australia of some of the world's best trainers an...