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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...

How much would you need to bet on every race to make a second income from horse racing? One punter hoped to win $40,000 a year to double his income, and when his betting plan was worked through rac...

Does a horse racing tipster actually bet his own picks? Joe Kristufek picks every race, every day, for a Chicago newspaper, and he answers that straight: his original selections are only a foundati...

Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...

Last year's Melbourne Cup winner Americain has been given topweight of 58kgs for the $2.5 million Caulfield Cup on October 15. Weights were issued on Tuesday morning by Racing Victoria's chief hand...

Handicapper Greg Carpenter has penalised French stayer Americain a half-kilogram for the Melbourne Cup following the imported entire's win in the Grp 3 Geelong Cup (2406m). Americain will now carry...

Caulfield Cup winner Descarado has copped a 1.5kgs penalty for the Melbourne Cup. It gives the Gai Waterhouse-trained 4YO exemption from the ballot for the and leapfrogs him to the top of the order...

Racing Victoria handicapper Greg Carpenter has penalised the Bart Cummings-trained Precedence 1.5kgs for the Melbourne Cup following the Zabeel 5YO's comfortable win in Sat's Moonee Valley Cup. Pre...

He's close to fighting fitness...Latest news is that current favorite Americain is only about 4kgs away from his 'winning' weight for the Melbourne Cup. Stephanie Nigge, travelling foreman for Fren...

Metropolitan winner The Verminator has been given a 2kgs Caulfield and Melbourne Cup penalty. It's the same penalty issued to the past two Metrop winners Speed Gifted and Herculian Prince and take...