Heart Of Paris 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...

A bookmaker's price is only an opinion — which is where framing your own betting market in Australian horse racing starts. Denton Jardine wrote this one for Practical Punting in August 1995, and he...

A friend of mine told me recently that he always knew when he was getting a 'value' price on a selection. He experienced, he said, a tremendous rush of anticipation a tingling feeling he often fel...

This is the third article in Martin Dowling's popular series, 100 Great Betting Ideas. The series, which will continue into the April, May and June issues of P.P.M., carries on in this issue from ...

In the first article in this series, I talked about the difficulties of framing your own betting market on a race - and advised you of ways and means to do so. This article takes the subject furth...

Someone once asked me how to define value at the races. I answered with one word: SHOPPING. For every race, the market offers us prices on not only each horse but on each daily double, each exacta...

This is the final part of our series featuring the views of UK professional punter Alan Potts, one of the most highly-regarded pro’s in world racing. This article takes the form of a question and ...