Apollo Sun Horse

Picking winners is only half the job; backing them well is the other half. Writing in Practical Punting in February 2004, US professional Barry Meadow and Practical Punting editor Brian Blackwell ...

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...

Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller is expecting better things from  Boban  when he lines-up in Saturday’s Group 2 $250,000 Apollo Stakes (1400m). “First-up he raced a little bit below what w...

Paximadia has been a key firmer in early betting for Caulfield on Saturday. The latest TAB price changes and bets are:

Precedence is top of betting for Saturday’s Group 2 Zipping Classic at Caulfield after Sertorius drifted in the market, says leading bookmakers Betstar.

It appears that divine intervention might be our best hope of isolating the winner of tomorrow's Australian Guineas; the mile Group 1 for three-year-olds surely one of the more open feature races w...

The Spring Racing Carnival concludes in Melbourne for another year with a bang on Saturday with the running of Sandown Guineas Day at Caulfield. Featuring an all black-type, nine-race program, Sp...

My recent series of articles on the Pro-Power staking approach drew a mass of letters from P.P.M. readers. Many wanted to see me put Pro-Power to the ultimate test - a day's action punting in thre...