Candlelit 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...

Royalty on the way! Carlton House, owned by the Queen and set for Gai Waterhouse's Randwick stables, is due to fly out of Hong Kong in the early hours of Monday morning alongside Australian gallope...

Gerald Ryan will use Saturday's Festival Stakes at Rosehill to test the Villiers Stakes credentials of smart gelding Ahdashim.The four-year-old has shown talent over sprinting distances but the jur...

Last month I talked about ways and means of studying the form in greyhound races and put forward some ideas to help the form student come to grips with the intricacies of the formlines. I outline...

Joe Pride has drawn on past successes and failures to have his Epsom Handicap chances ready to run the race of their lives at Randwick on Saturday.For months Pride has had his eyes set on the time-...

The only box Southern Speed hasn't yet ticked is the one that indicates wet track form but trainer Leon Macdonald expects her to take care of that at Rosehill.The Caulfield Cup winner comes into Sa...

Caulfield Cup winner Southern Speed is back home in Adelaide being prepared for an ambitious autumn carnival including Sydney's weight-for-age features.Trainer Leon Macdonald has an enviable record...