Holy Havoc 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...

The Dermot Weld-trained mare Profound Beauty is the one punters want in the Melbourne Cup and she is now outright favourite for the great race after the release of weights on Wednesday.TAB Sportsbe...

Almost a year after her successful hit-and-run mission for the AJC Australian Oaks, New Zealand mare Daffodil is back to try to plunder two of Sydney's feature weight-for-age races this autumn.She ...

Almost a year after her successful hit-and-run mission for the AJC Australian Oaks, New Zealand mare Daffodil is back to try to plunder two of Sydney's feature weight-for-age races this autumn.She ...

The weights for the 2009 BMW Caulfield Cup (2400m) and Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) were headed by Australian horses when handicaps were released by Racing Victoria Limited (RVL) Chief Handicappe...

CHRIS MUNCE has picked up the prized Caulfield and Melbourne cups ride on Kiwi mare Daffodil following her group 1 victory in the Windsor Park Plate (1600 metres) in New Zealand at the weekend, rep...

Mark Kavanagh-trained gallopers dominate TAB Sportsbet's opening markets for both the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate.Caulfield Guineas winner Whobegotyou, who was second in the Victoria Derby and a lu...