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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...

Star filly Black Caviar has suffered a leg injury which will keep her out of action until at least the spring.Unbeaten in five races starts, the Peter Moody-trained three-year-old had been an odds-...

Bookmakers are forecasting record levels of turnover at this week's Cheltenham Festival.With 27 races over four days, the betting industry is braced for the biggest week of the year with over STG30...

Trainer Gary Portelli has every reason to be confident about Delago Bolt tackling the likes of Manhattan Rain and Black Caviar in the Danehill Stakes after watching him in a jumpout at Flemington.A...

Trainer Gary Portelli has every reason to be confident about Delago Bolt tackling the likes of Manhattan Rain and Black Caviar in the Danehill Stakes after watching him in a jumpout at Flemington.A...

George ‘Barker’ Bellfield reviews Bill McBride’s new book. For some time now, America's No 1 greyhound racing-handicapping authority, Bill McBride, has been writing the occasional feature artic...

And now, as they say, for something completely different. This month I’m interviewing William Mack, who is more than 80 years old and has been watching more Melbourne Cups than he cares to remembe...