Ordinary Star Horse

Picking winners is only half the job; backing them well is the other half. Writing in Practical Punting in February 2004, US professional Barry Meadow and Practical Punting editor Brian Blackwell ...

Picking winners comes down to what has changed about a horse, and what everyone else has missed. Writing in Practical Punting in January 2004, US professional Barry Meadow and Practical Punting ed...

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...

How good is So You Think? It's the big talking-point question in the wake of his barnstorming spring form. Veteran turf scribbler Max Presnell is holding back fulsome praise. He says in his SMH col...

The 2013 Irish St Leger winner  Voleuse De Coeurs  will remain in training with the Melbourne Cup as her aim, rfeports Racing Network.  Mike Moroney said the five-year-old mare would be spelle...

Despite his ordinary run in the Rosehill Guineas, Gold Coast star Shoot Out will tackle the AJC Derby 2400m at Randwick on Sat week. Trainer John Wallace is willing to forgive Shoot Out's defeat at...

It's all worries for All Silent in the leadup to the Grp 1 Newmarket Hdcp on Saturday...Trainer Grahame Begg is shrugging off All Silent's ordinary run in a Flemington jump-out on Tuesday, even tho...

No worries, the lights are still on...David Hayes is brushing off the shock flop of his star 3YO Irish Lights in the Rubiton at Caulfield. The filly ran a very ordinary 6th. DH explains: 'I think w...

That was an impressive performance by Frankel at Royal Ascot - scoring by 11 lengths in a Grp 1 race is rare. He did it in explosive fashion. But maybe a doubt or two remains. The time was nothing ...