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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...

There's a mad Kiwi (or two) running around the Sth Island of NZ. The nutter has been scattering nails on a New Zealand horse racing track. Officials say it's terrorism. An anonymous phone call 90 m...

Meanest act of the year in racing? Surely it must be the $300 fine imposed on Hugh Bowman for touching his cap in honor of racecaller Ian Craig on his last day at Gosford? There was no 'danger' in ...

It's all done with mirrors...Lloyd Williams is producing his annual juggling act just to keep us all in a knot over which horse is going where...He's now saying that his top stayer C'est La Guerre ...

DARLEY expects to announce a successor to Peter Snowden “sooner rather later”, says Racing Network. Henry Plumptre, the Australian Managing Director of Darley, said an announcement would not be “...

Veteran Toowoomba horseman Barry Squair will chase a consolation prize with his promising sprinter G'Day Old Mate at Eagle Farm on Saturday after he was balloted out of the rich Weetwood Handicap.S...

Black Caviar's half-brother All Too Hard can put himself into Blue Diamond contention if he can win his race debut at Flemington.The Casino Prince colt is one of six Talindert Stakes runners still ...