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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...

Tracks and ConsistencyLast weekend Caulfield was hopeless if you were back near the rear.Unless you found a way through the pack. Try to go wide early and goodnight.But it's not a big enough track ...

TIME TO ABANDON SHIP.I'm loath to abandon a horse I've identified as a coming winner. But I've found over the years, that even though I'll miss a few winners, I avoid an awful lot of losers by empl...

I have to admit that the sentence above is a rather tricky title.  You will see what I’m getting at as we go along. I was looking at the Sunday results a week or two back, and I found myself looki...

ECONOMY DRIVESOn my way to the Rosehill races I stopped off near Parramatta to have a coffee and thought I knew the bloke sitting at the next table. I walked up to him and we recognized each other ...

IT'S NOT OVERUntil she sings.Well, it's nearly over for Flemington and blow me down they now turn around and think they might even have a good track!Melbourne, huh?I love the place BUT again we lea...

The secret of successful punting is to find some angle that nobody else has found and milk it for all it’s worth before it’s discovered by all and sundry. This angle can and will be found in data ...