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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...

Caulfield trainer Brendan McCarthy has used his hands to mould Group One performer Chasm into a winner for the first time in more than 2-1/2 years.Formerly trained by Heath Conners, Chasm was havin...

Last month, we only managed to get halfway in this discussion. Incidentally, I wonder if you noticed that in the November issue of PPM, both Brian and I made six final selections for the Melbour...

The secret of successful punting is to find some angle that nobody else has found and milk it for all it’s worth before it’s discovered by all and sundry. This angle can and will be found in data ...

If you had been a reader of the May issue of PPM, you would have struck a host of excellent winning bets. The winners were right there in front of you. Some examples: Solo Affaire (13-2) and Exci...

One of the perennial debates in racing is over the effects of the barrier draw on a horse’s chances in a race. In August 2003, I joined in a discussion on the web-based racing forum, AusRace, reg...

The secret of successful punting is to find some angle that nobody else has found and milk it for all it’s worth before it’s discovered by all and sundry. This angle can and will be found in data ...