Maybe Diva Horse

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...

A SMALL THING BUT THEN AGAIN...It was THAT track.It just wasn't THAT distance.And yet it was for others...The track was FLEMINGTON.Two significant runners were two immigrants from a powerful Cups F...

Mark Kavanagh says he rates Shocking as just an each-way chance in Saturday's Underwood Stakes at Caulfield, attributing his impressive Makybe Diva Stakes win to his love of Flemington.Four of his ...

Renowned as the trainer of the world's best sprinter, Peter Moody switched his focus to the staying breed on Thursday when he paid $1.2 million for a colt with a Melbourne Cup pedigree.Black Caviar...

áLike a Bird - but what sort?Leica Falcon hasn't won for about 4 years. He ran a blinder in Makybe Diva's third Melbourne Cup.Some felt he should have won it.Last (24th) to fourth in the straight.H...

Bookmakers have reacted swiftly to Shocking's win in the Makybe Diva Stakes winding him in to $8 to win back to back Melbourne Cups.After weights were released last week, Shocking was the $12 favou...

A SHOCKING RETURNVigor ran a great race and is on target. Heart of Dreams is a real chance for the Cox Plate. BUT the horse that caught that pair and won Saturday's Makybe Diva Stakes did it with p...