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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...

One thing leads to another ... This is one of the lessons we learn early in life, isn't it? In other words, cause and effect. You do one thing and it has an effect. Kick a football towards a windo...

Two major talking points from Sunday's Grp 1 Goodwood 1200m at Morphettville...The first is that the winner Lone Rock is unlikely to race at the Brisbane winter carnival. Trainer Robert Smerdon say...

Carrying on with our twenty sharp ideas for punting in 2002, the first of the final eight is something a little different something that punters like to pursue, regardless of the fact that it is n...

Carrying on with our twenty sharp ideas for punting in 2002, the first of the final eight is something a little different something that punters like to pursue, regardless of the fact that it is n...

Back in the 1950s, an American named Jack Bradley was a key figure in US horse-racing media. Bradley wrote regularly for the Turf & Sport Digest. He was a man who liked to offer as much help as h...

Back in the 1950s, an American named Jack Bradley was a key figure in US horse-racing media. Bradley wrote regularly for the Turf & Sport Digest. He was a man who liked to offer as much help as h...