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Picking winners comes down to what has changed about a horse, and what everyone else has missed. Writing in Practical Punting in January 2004, US ...
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A professional horse racing handicapper on why a betting plan that once paid can stop working, and why, after a frustrating two hours of placed win...
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Does a horse racing tipster actually bet his own picks? Joe Kristufek picks every race, every day, for a Chicago newspaper, and he answers that str...
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 boar...
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Jest Crewsin's hard-fought second to a horse Jan Bowen regards as a future champion has convinced the trainer he is on target for Friday night's Ca...
GAI Waterhouse believes her quest for an historic eighth Epsom has been made difficult by the compressed weights for feature races, which she's l...
Speedster Eight Bills restored Gary Portelli's confidence in his ability with a dominant victory under a big weight at Warwick Farm a couple of wee...
Niggling injuries to Group One-placed Bank Robber have forced trainer Gai Waterhouse to bypass Friday's Listed Carrington Stakes at Randwick.The pr...
David Payne has a healthy respect for Border Rebel but believes the Carrington Stakes weight scale gives Cardinal Virtue a chance in Saturday's Lis...
Cox Plate runner-up Manhattan Rain showed his class to be the star of the Randwick barrier trials yesterday, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It s...
Sue Grills has confirmed country star Border Rebel will head to Sydney for Saturday's Listed Carrington Stakes but the trainer believes he has the ...
JOCKEY Daniel Stackhouse enhanced his reputation at Moonee Valley yesterday - perhaps enough to become recognisable on Victorian racetracks, repor...
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Picking winners comes down to what has changed about a horse, and what everyone else has missed. Writing in Practical Punting in January 2004, US professional Barry Meadow and Practical Punting ed...
Because of the grading system, every greyhound in a race has a chance of winning — so the hardest job in greyhound racing form study is deciding which dogs to eliminate. Writing in Practical Punti...
Horse racing form is more than numbers — a trainer, a jockey and an owner are all telling you something, if you know where to look. Writing in Practical Punting in December 2003, US expert Barry M...
Horse racing handicapping does not reduce to a system — as US expert Barry Meadow puts it, most experienced players understand the game is far too complex for that. Writing in Practical Punting in...
What should a genuinely good horse racing form analyst actually expect to win in a year? In April 2009, in Brian Blackwell's Practical Punting series Attainable Targets, the American handicapper J...
A basic horse racing form study mistake, says American handicapping expert James Quinn: crossing off too many horses too early, because they haven't run within 30 to 45 days or their last race loo...
A professional horse racing handicapper on why a betting plan that once paid can stop working, and why, after a frustrating two hours of placed win bets, he still won't bet them to place. In Februa...
How much would you need to bet on every race to make a second income from horse racing? One punter hoped to win $40,000 a year to double his income, and when his betting plan was worked through rac...
Does a horse racing tipster actually bet his own picks? Joe Kristufek picks every race, every day, for a Chicago newspaper, and he answers that straight: his original selections are only a foundati...
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...
Electric Dreams was a first-up winner at the corresponding New Year's Day meeting last season but her Randwick performance on Saturday holds much more significance.The speedy mare is targeting a fi...
Jest Crewsin's hard-fought second to a horse Jan Bowen regards as a future champion has convinced the trainer he is on target for Friday night's Canterbury Classic.The Joe Pride-trained Rain Affair...
GAI Waterhouse believes her quest for an historic eighth Epsom has been made difficult by the compressed weights for feature races, which she's labelled "madness", reports the Daily Telegraph in ...
Speedster Eight Bills restored Gary Portelli's confidence in his ability with a dominant victory under a big weight at Warwick Farm a couple of weeks ago.More importantly, the trainer believes the ...
Niggling injuries to Group One-placed Bank Robber have forced trainer Gai Waterhouse to bypass Friday's Listed Carrington Stakes at Randwick.The premier trainer insisted there was nothing seriously...
David Payne has a healthy respect for Border Rebel but believes the Carrington Stakes weight scale gives Cardinal Virtue a chance in Saturday's Listed feature at Randwick.Payne hadn't originally ta...
Cox Plate runner-up Manhattan Rain showed his class to be the star of the Randwick barrier trials yesterday, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.It says: The three-year-old half-brother to Redoute's ...
Sue Grills has confirmed country star Border Rebel will head to Sydney for Saturday's Listed Carrington Stakes but the trainer believes he has the job ahead of him to score a first-up win.Grills ha...
JOCKEY Daniel Stackhouse enhanced his reputation at Moonee Valley yesterday - perhaps enough to become recognisable on Victorian racetracks, reports the Melbourne Herald-Sun.It says: But at Echuca...
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