Parting Glance 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...

Last issue we began a series titled 20 Pitfalls To Avoid. Four were listed in that article, and now we bring you the other 16. Pitfalls ... Even the word has an ominous ring! You can call them ...

A chap admitted to me recently that he'd backed 22 losers in a row. I told him not to panic. This may seem trite advice, but I meant it sincerely. There is nothing worse for a punter than to ente...

A chap admitted to me recently that he'd backed 22 losers in a row. I told him not to panic. This may seem trite advice, but I meant it sincerely. There is nothing worse for a punter than to ente...

A chap admitted to me recently that he'd backed 22 losers in a row. I told him not to panic. This may seem trite advice, but I meant it sincerely. There is nothing worse for a punter than to ente...

Martin Dowling concludes his great series. So far in this series we have listed 71 betting ideas. To complete the series, we will now take a look at the remaining 29 of the '100 Great Betting Ide...

The "poor old punter" faces myriad pitfalls as he goes about the business of betting on racehorses. Many of them he falls into time and again. It's all very well for us pundits to say "don't do...