Philosopher Horse

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...

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...

He has a flamboyant name, and if his riding style is anything to go by, it suits him down to the ground.... Teenaged Frenchman Mickael Barzalona won the Epsom Derby on the Andre Fabre trained Pour ...

Promising three-year-old Once Were Wild gave prominent owner John Singleton and trainer Gai Waterhouse something to cheer about at Canterbury on Friday, a day before the long-awaited return of star...

Local trainer Chris Waller has maintained his impressive strike rate this season with Lonhro filly Novita Flash scoring an easy all-the-way win at Rosehill on Wednesday.It was Waller's 33rd success...

What makes a horse a standout 'best bet'? How can you say that on a heavy day's racing one horse stands out as a banker, a special, a good thing? I like to think it's because a horse is fit, is ...

What makes a horse a standout 'best bet'? How can you say that on a heavy day's racing one horse stands out as a banker, a special, a good thing? I like to think it's because a horse is fit, is ...

There are two words that should hold more significance for punters than most other two words in the English language. I have always called them the "QC" of my racetrack investment and see them as ...