Imminent Touch 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...

OWNER Alan Craddock and trainer Clive Cox are “seriously considering” bringing record-breaking July Cup winner Lethal Force to the Melbourne spring carnival.  

LETHAL FORCE's all-the-way blitz in the July Cup on Saturday was enough to establish the grey as Europe's leading sprinter in 2013 but his performance merely matched the best recent runs in the 6...

Patinack Farm Classic possible Lethal Force was foiled in his bid for a third European Group 1 success as Moonlight Cloud landed a hat-trick of wins in the Prix Maurice de Gheest (1300m) atDeauvi...

DANNY O’Brien believes Shamexpress, beaten into seventh place behind record-breaking winner Lethal Force in the July Cup at Newmarket overnight, needs to find three lengths to win a top internati...

FIVE European horses remain in the picture to participate in The Championships. Connections of Caulfield and Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden, twice Melbourne Cup runner-up Red Cadeaux, Mackinnon Sta...

Bouncing back? Sakae Kunieda, the trainer of top Japanese stayer Meiner Kitz (a Melbourne Cup prospect) is apparently keen to 'raid' the spring with his Aussie-bred 3YO Break A Theory. The target w...