Mighty Bright Horse

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...

I know that one of the biggest pleasures I get when handicapping is to take the coloured pens (coloured pens are an infallible sign of a good handicapper) and cross out certain horses – obliterate...

I know that one of the biggest pleasures I get when handicapping is to take the coloured pens (coloured pens are an infallible sign of a good handicapper) and cross out certain horses. Obliterate ...

For over a decade, I’ve sold and counselled in the use of record-keeping software for handicappers. Keeping and analysing betting records is both the thing that handicappers least like to do – m...

In all the year’s I’ve been betting I have never found two punters who think alike when it comes to analysing and dissecting form. Each person seems to have his or her own “starting point”, whet...

Gordon Pine, the noted US handicapper, wrote recently that if, as a punter, you are not “handicapping yourself” then you are actually handicapping yourself! What he meant, of course, was that if ...

Never stop looking for new ideas! This has always been my credo as far as racing is concerned, and it’s something I work at day and night. Many’s the evening I settle down with a set of results t...