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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...

SPRINTING sensation Starspangledbanner has made such an impact on English racing that the three-year old is now unlikely to return to Australia for the forthcoming breeding season, reports The Age....

Hong Kong-based Australian jockeys Nash Rawiller and Zac Purton are about to rack-up some frequent-flyer points. Rawiller has accepted an invitation from Chris Waller to ride Carbine Club Stakes ...

Eachway betting? An old chestnut, surely. And surely everything's been said about it that could be said. Well, this time last year I might have agreed with that. It was a hard year on the punt an...

Eachway betting? An old chestnut, surely. And surely everything's been said about it that could be said. Well, this time last year I might have agreed with that. It was a hard year on the punt an...