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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...

How much would you need to bet on every race to make a second income from horse racing? One punter hoped to win $40,000 a year to double his income, and when his betting plan was worked through rac...

Does a horse racing tipster actually bet his own picks? Joe Kristufek picks every race, every day, for a Chicago newspaper, and he answers that straight: his original selections are only a foundati...

Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...

Queensland jockey Corey Gilby has died after being severely injured in a fall in a post-meeting trial at Saturday's Julia Creek race meeting in north Queensland. Gilby, 25, died on Monday in Townsv...

Queensland jockey Desiree Gill has died from injuries sustained in a race fall on the Sunshine Coast. She was taken to Nambour Hospital on Saturday night in a critical condition and died on Sunda...

JOCKEY Simone Montgomerie has died after being thrown from her horse at the Darwin Cup meeting at Fannie Bay.  The mother-of-two was riding Riahgrand in Race 6 when the horse horse threw her to ...

Terrible news to end the year...Kiwi jockey Ashlee Mundy has died after a fall at the Kurow races in NZ on Sunday. Mundy was flown to Dunedin Hospital in a critical condition after the fall in race...

Early bad luck...Cedarberg, one of Australia's main Caulfield & Melbourne Cup prospects, dropped dead after galloping at Moonee Valley on Tuesday morning. The Pat Carey-trained stayer had just com...

Champion jockey Roy Higgins has died in a Melbourne hospital aged 75 after a short illness. Higgins rode the first of Bart Cummings' Melbourne Cup winners, Light Fingers, in 1965 and added a seco...