Best Of The Best Horse

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...

Bound for Australia? The Steve McKee trained filly Pussy Willow looks like a readymade Kiwi challenger for Oz spoils. She landed the biggest two-year-old prize of the season so far in NZ when she ...

Star galloper So You Think has gained a Top 10 ranking on the newly released World Thoroughbred Rankings (WTR) for 2010. At 126, So You Think is officially rated as the 8th equal best horse in the ...

They're hot...Brisbane trainer Rob Heathcote hit 58.5 winners for the season with a treble on Saturday which puts him within reach of grabbing 60 winners - a feat that only 2 trainers have achieved...

STICKING TO THE BEST COMPANY? Experts often advise novice punters to stick with the very best races. Other experts argue that you will rarely get an edge betting this way, because the form is total...

FAWKNER, the only runner for mega-owner Lloyd Williams in the Caulfield Cup, has been the best backed runner to win the 2400m Group 1 race, says TAB's Matt Jenkins.  At the start of the week one ...

J apanese galloper Just A Way has been crowned the Longines World’s Best Racehorse for 2014 in London, reports Racing Victoria (www.racing.com). The brilliant six-year-old son of Heart’s Cry won...