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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...

It's the big problem for the Cup countdown... Victoria chief handicapper Greg Carpenter will unveil his 10th set of Melbourne Cup weights on Tuesday, but the latest presents the far greatest chal...

Money will have no bearing on whether Black Caviar fronts up against Frankel in England later this year.Melbourne Cup-winning owner Sheikh Fahad has offered to boost his sponsorship of the Sussex S...

An Old WarningNothing's certain in racing.Surprised at this comment? Of course not.But for many years now I've warned against the outside barriers in sprints at Rosehill.Except when it's wet. Then ...

Next month’s meeting between the South Australian Jockeys Association and Thoroughbred Racing South Australia will determine the future of jumps racing at Morphettville. SAJC CEO Brenton Wilki...

The Australian Racing Board is at it again...Its new whip laws are not even in force and it's changing them...Now we're told that stewards will take a soft approach to penalties for breaches of the...

The OmenMy wife has little interest in racing. But every once in a blue moon she will say "See if there's a horse with that name", or I will mention a strange coincidence in a horse's name and she'...