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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...

Top trainer Robert Heathcote will resist the temptation to add promising filly Tomboy to his team preparing for an assault on the spring carnival in Melbourne.Heathcote is not looking beyond Saturd...

It's often been said that the art of betting is not really about picking winners. It's all about how you can pick enough winners at sufficiently good odds to allow you to make a profit in the long...

The importance of weights as a major form instrument. for the greater part of racing's history, has never been a contentious issue. Weights have long been regarded as the cornerstone of successful...

Eric Connolly once said there was a simple system which could win good money for patient punters. He had this to say: "It is not always easy to correctly time the preparation of a horse, and pun...

Imported galloper Sound Of Nature, one of six tried horses bought in England by Lee Freedman late last year, has his first Australian start at Sandown on Sunday.The Chester House six-year-old is th...

It's often been said that the art of betting is not really about picking winners. It's all about how you can pick enough winners at sufficiently good odds to allow you to make a profit in the long...