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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...

Top colt Foxwedge narrowly missed out on a Group One win during the spring but he will be given the chance to rectify that in the major Melbourne sprints.The winner of the Group Two Roman Consul St...

For all that glamour mare Hot Danish has achieved on the racetrack there is one glaring omission from her record.The six-year-old has won more than half of her 20 starts and over $1 million in priz...

For all that glamour mare Hot Danish has achieved on the racetrack there is one glaring omission from her record.The six-year-old has won more than half of her 20 starts and over $1 million in priz...

Smart-aleck apprentice Daniel Ganderton has been taken down a peg or two after his behavior at a stewards' hearing last Saturday. Stewards have put him on a good behaviour trial for 12 months after...

Encouraging overseas horses to come to Australia to contest the Melbourne Cup seemed like a good idea at one time but with eight Europeans in the field this year, many have called for a limit on th...

from HK RACING POSTLast week racing fans were treated to Hong Kong's best horse, Ambitious Dragon, winning his fifth Group One, and today it is perhaps the next best galloper being presented by Joh...