Serasana Horse

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...

A DERBY TO SAVOUR OR TO FORGET?There have been great years. 1996 for example. But there are more frequently ordinary years.Now and then a filly strikes. Twenty-one years ago one did. She was except...

No Caulfield or Melbourne Cups for Ironstein this year, according to trainer Gerald Ryan. He says the much more modest Grafton Cup is the next target. GR adds: 'Ever since Jim Cassidy rode him and ...

Trainer Kelso Wood believes statistics can be misleading and is confident Zero Rock has all the boxes ticked to maintain her unbeaten record this campaign in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes at Doombe...

FRIDAY was a day Nikki Burke would rather forget but yesterday the Cranbourne trainer was back on one of racing's highs with an early winner at Stony Creek followed by the victory of Johnny Fiasco ...

RICK HORE-LACY returned to the scene of a racing horror story when winning a rough-house $1 million Golden Rose at Rosehill yesterday with Toorak Toff, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Her...

One bad run. Always forgive a good horse one bad run, so they say. So who are "they"? The same "they," who are backing "it" in the ring? You know the spiel: "they are backing it", "they've backed...