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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...

Should we change the way we think when it comes to analysing form? Are you, perhaps, approaching form from the wrong angle? Can you re-think what you are doing to produce a better result? These a...

After nobody hit the Pick 6 on a day when $1 million was guaranteed, Hollywood Park offered a carryover of a hefty $683,636. My ticket? Zero. Oh, I worked on the ticket all right, as I do wheneve...

After nobody hit the Pick 6 on a day when $1 million was guaranteed, Hollywood Park offered a carryover of a hefty $683,636. My ticket? Zero. Oh, I worked on the ticket all right, as I do wheneve...

After nobody hit the Pick 6 on a day when $1 million was guaranteed, Hollywood Park offered a carryover of a hefty $683,636. My ticket? Zero. Oh, I worked on the ticket all right, as I do wheneve...

A punters I think we spend an awful lot of time dreaming up new ways to win, or perhaps just new ways to lose! Punters are, in the main, optimists and dreamers and receptive to new ideas, advice a...

Sixty per cent of all races are won by well-backed horses. I don't think anyone will disagree with this claim. If it is, indeed, correct, and I have no reason to doubt it, there does not seem to b...