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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...

It's been more than three decades since Bart Cummings won a Golden Slipper and he thinks it's about time to put that right.A couple of weeks ago there was no indication Australia's legendary traine...

Injury-prone galloper Grand Duels is looking to revive his career in the Group One Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield.The bolter of Saturday's field at $71 with TAB Sportsbet, the six-year-old is a dual G...

The world's highest-rated sprinter Black Caviar has opened well into the red as she tries to extend her unbeaten run to nine in Saturday's $750,000 Lightning Stakes at Flemington.The Bel Esprit mar...

Here They Come, But Fewer of Them.Let's start with a warning: hold onto your wallets!The Melbourne Cup has closed its noms with 230 received, down from 297 last year.The Caulfield Cup has 227, from...

Trainer Tony Millard and champion jockey Zac Purton have not partnered up for over 12 months, but they could be back as an item after aspiring star  Divine Calling  makes his long-awaited debut...

With all the justified hype surrounding Black Caviar in recent months, it is too easily forgotten that not so long ago, Australians were standing and applauding another bona fide champion of the tu...