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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...

Darley exodus...Sousa and 8 other horses are leaving the Lee Freedman and Peter Snowden stables for Dubai to be trained out of Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin stable. John Ferguson, Sheikh Mohammed's b...

Headline acts Sepoy and Helmet will compete on World Cup night in March but a few of their Australian stablemates will be headed to Dubai even earlier.Trainer Peter Snowden is waiting to hear which...

Headline acts Sepoy and Helmet will compete on World Cup night in March but a few of their Australian stablemates will be headed to Dubai even earlier.Trainer Peter Snowden is waiting to hear which...

Some industry people don't like Darley's decision to move 9 horses from its Aussie operation to Dubai but breeding industry leader John Messara isn't one of them. He says he fully supports Sheikh M...

Internatiomnal  racing supremo Godolphin will have a permanent presence in Australia from the start of the new racing season. John Ferguson, bloodstock adviser to Godolphin’s owner Sheikh Mohammed...

Kerrin McEvoy has come a long way since riding his first winner on a dusty track at Ceduna in South Australia to notching number 1,000 at Randwick.His success on Brew in the Melbourne Cup of 2000 c...