Complete Unknown 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...

BLACK Caviar might be rated a $1.22 chance, but she faces an unknown factor at her Sydney debut, and history suggests that even superstars can struggle the first time they race the opposite way for...

Chad Schofield’s return is not expected until January, but a more accurate timeline will not be known for a week, reports Racing Network. Schofield’s manager Mark Van Triet said a “realistic” tar...

Victorian trainer Greg Eurell is a little anxious about the rain in Sydney which could mean unbeaten three-year-old Mic Mac racing on a wet track for the first time in Saturday's Group One Randwick...

Victorian trainer Greg Eurell is a little anxious about the rain in Sydney which could mean unbeaten three-year-old Mic Mac racing on a wet track for the first time in Saturday's Group One Randwick...

What's the most important factor in horse racing? Is it speed or pace, pedigree or trainer, the jockey? Nope. The most important factor is luck. Luck is defined as "good or bad fortune acquired u...

Final chapter...Dick Francis, great jumps jockey and best-selling author of racing crime novels, has died at 89. He retired from riding in 1957 to begin his writing career with his autobiography Th...