Second Guess 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...

Guess what? Stewards have upheld their own protest! Isn't that a surprise! It was Racing NSW's chief steward Ray Murrihy who performed the inevitable. He lodged and then upheld a minor protest on b...

The big Doncaster question is this: Can More Joyous win on a heavy track? The 'facts' say No. She's had 2 goes on heavy and failed both times. Owner John Singleton is certainly concerned that MJ wi...

Chris Waller's first Sydney premiership came sooner than expected for the simple reason he never expected to win one.The Rosehill-based horseman capped his meteoric rise in Sydney when he was crown...

Tony McEvoy  is expecting significant improvement from  Concealer  when she lines up in Saturday’s $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield. The daughter of  Nicconi  is currently r...

Interesting ChangesI think something of great value could have come out of that last blog. You'd have seen that your horse was either 1-2-3 on the turn or forget it... well, there's more to it than...

What Did We Learn?The horse ran with the lesser lights and finished a gallant second after having some difficulty getting clear. The distance may have been just too far with the weight.The BIG less...