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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...

It’s A Dundeel had enough against him in Saturday’s Sportingbet Cox Plate without the burden of favouritism. The Murray Baker-trained star inherited top spot in the TAB’s market on the $3 million...

Robert Saunders Dowst is regarded as we of the worlds leading  racing experts. He is legendary for his books about in-depth handicapping and money management his theories  being formulated in the ...

The thought that nags anyone who writes a weekly racing column, as I do, from time to time, is this: "What should I write about for next week?" It's been pushing its way to the top of my to-do lis...

How  to define class? Yes, it's that age-old handicapping issue and one that despite the many changing classifications of races we've had in recent years remains an ongoing riddle. How can we com...

Now can you make some big windfalls from doubles? P.P.M. expert David Whitney serves up a few tempting suggestions in this special article. Some years ago it wasn't unusual for professional punt...

Few punters would argue against the statement that says staking is MORE important than selection in the battle to win at horse-racing. Some might say that both are equally important. I tend to di...