Blueprint Horse

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...

THE scratching yesterday of one of the Cox Plate's likely pacesetters, Descarado, has not changed the pre-race plan of Kerrin McEvoy, who insisted yesterday that he did not have to lead on race fav...

Psychologists call it 'patterns of behaviour' and, of course, they're talking about human beings and the way that 99 per cent of us adopt a rational lifestyle with predictable behaviour. But what...

JOCKEY Chris Munce's blueprint to making the weight of 49.5 kilograms to ride Cox Plate hopeful All Too Hard in tomorrow's $3 million Cox Plate is a simple one, ''eat less and exercise more'', repo...

Benalla trainer Wayne Nichols may have his career on the line but still has plenty to smile about with the emergence of Bartholdi as a potential Group One three-year-old.Nichols was shocked to lear...

from RACING POST HKPunters might have their hearts in their mouths at some stage, but a wide gate might bring at least one blessing with Turbo King in tonight's Wayfoong Centenary Bowl (1,000m) at ...

George ‘Barker’ Bellfield reviews Bill McBride’s new book. For some time now, America's No 1 greyhound racing-handicapping authority, Bill McBride, has been writing the occasional feature artic...