Highly Spoken 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...

Saturday’s Manfred Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield is set to bring together a line-up of horses bellying its Group 3 status if today’s nominations are any indication. Entries were extended for the $1...

The last of the international horses has departed the TAB International Horse Centre at Werribee and the focus of the Werribee Racing Club (WRC) has switched to its forthcoming Cup Day which return...

  Remembering all that is spoken and written about betting is, for many punters, too much of a task. It can be confusing and a little frustrating to have to cope with such a massive input of 'dat...

When we study form, what are we really looking for? Confirmation that the prerace favourite has the best chance? Evidence to confirm a gut feeling we have about a certain horse? I guess differe...

When Brian Blackwell, the editor of PPM, asked me to write a major feature on what I had learnt in over 40 years of punting, I wondered where I would start. Additionally, his brief was tight in ...

Let’s get straight down to this, because we’ve still got seven points to get through. For anybody that didn’t read the first installment, see the link below to the previous article. The barrier p...