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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...

Final chapter...Dick Francis, great jumps jockey and best-selling author of racing crime novels, has died at 89. He retired from riding in 1957 to begin his writing career with his autobiography Th...

AFTER a significant backlash within the racing industry, Racing Victoria chief executive Rob Hines yesterday spoke out in defence of the decision to end jumps racing at the end of 2010, but did lit...

  Champion trainer Guy Walter has died after suffering a suspected heart attack. Walter was at home when he became ill on Thursday morning. The trainer saddled up Streama to win last Saturday’s Gr...

Queensland jockey Corey Gilby has died after being severely injured in a fall in a post-meeting trial at Saturday's Julia Creek race meeting in north Queensland. Gilby, 25, died on Monday in Townsv...

South Australian jockey Caitlin Forrest has died in hospital overnight from injuries suffered in a fall at Murray Bridge yesterday. The 19-year-old had been leading the race when her horse broke ...

Early bad luck...Cedarberg, one of Australia's main Caulfield & Melbourne Cup prospects, dropped dead after galloping at Moonee Valley on Tuesday morning. The Pat Carey-trained stayer had just com...