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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 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...

MARK Kavanagh was measured when assessing the prospects of Chivalry in Saturday's Blue Diamond.  Kavanagh noted it was "clever" not to have high expectations in the Diamond given it is always a ...

Brendan Delaney is used to calling races across Victoria, whether at thoroughbred trials at Cranbourne or Tatura, or the greyhounds at Warrnambool. But his lifelong passion for race calling is ab...

Neil Callan celebrates aboard Blazing Speed after winning the QE II Cup at Sha Tin. Photos: Kenneth Chan   Audemars Piguet QE II Cup day opened with a surprise of t...

Adrian Bott made a high-flying start to his life as co-trainer to  Gai Waterhouse  on Saturday - their first winner in partnership coming in stakes grade. Thronum's  thrilling win over  Mediterr...

Some time ago, a friend of mine telephoned me to ask my advice about a horse he owned. It was entered in a ‘Restricted’ race at a provincial meeting in Queensland. He wanted to know how the horse...

In the December 2005 edition of PPM, I wrote an article which attacked one of racing’s most time honored core values, the issue of weights and how it impacted on form analysis. The essence of the ...