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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...

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...

This Sunday, with the running of the Turnbull Stakes, we will see the next step forward for last years Melbourne Cup winner, Shocking, as he attempts to maintain his magnificent Flemington record, ...

Last month I talked about ways and means of studying the form in greyhound races and put forward some ideas to help the form student come to grips with the intricacies of the formlines. I outline...

Colin Scott has every reason to be nervous looking at the star-studded Queen Elizabeth Stakes field.But the Pakenham-based trainer, who will saddle up outsider Speediness in the $500,000 feature, i...

Bendigo has been granted a premier stand alone Saturday meeting for three years with the first to be held in March next year.To be known as the Golden Mile raceday, the meeting will replace the Mel...

Emerging stayer Noble Park is set to build on his growing reputation when he launches his Caulfield Cup campaign at Flemington.Trainer Mike Moroney has always liked the 17-hand four-year-old son of...