Concise Horse

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...

Regular jockey Luke Nolen has put a concise seal of approval on champion mare Black Caviar as she prepares to step into uncharted territory at Caulfield on Saturday.After riding the mare in her fin...

Win-strike rates are fun, believe it or not. How many times have you seen a statement something like this one? "The horse must have a winstrike rate of 25 per cent, a minimum of five starts and m...

Track bias means many things to many people in racing. Even various commentators and racecallers seem to have their own ideas of what does, and what does not, constitute track bias, so a few words...

Only a few years ago it was often a difficult, if not impossible, task for punters to determine whether certain horses could handle rain-affected ground. There was a virtual reliance on the 'w' an...

Has today's unprecedented amount of racing information led to in increase in the number of winning punters? I would argue 'No'. The reason lies in the fact that the majority of punters continue t...

With punters facing the prospect of more and more the inevitable outcome is that they're tempted to bet on too many races and study each race with less attention than ever. It's an enormous shame ...