Spring Prospect Horse

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...

The Rick Hore-Lacy trained Chase the Rainbow will almost certainly miss the rest of the Spring Racing Carnival after it was discovered on Friday that the gelding had pulled up lame following track ...

What a run by Leica Larrikin for 2nd at Flemington! It puts the spring Cups right in his sights. The Melbourne Cup dream turned ugly for trainer Richard Freyer with his unlucky stayer Leica Falcon,...

Cup fever is kicking in - and it's the 'foreign' imports who look like making the headlines (again!). Latest news concerns imported stayer Winchester. He's a four-time Grp 1 winner in the United St...

Early spring tip...Rosehill trainer David Payne is tipping that his Warwick Farm winner Reem can develop into a VRC Oaks prospect in the spring. The Galileo filly is now off for a short break befo...

Mick Price has a spring prospect with Mornington winner Stratcombe. He says: 'It was only a 0-68 race and there were probably not a lot of great horses behind him but I just want to teach him witho...

Mark Kavanagh remains optimistic that Super Cool may yet attain the Spring Racing Carnival glory that eluded him last year when  the son of Fastnet Rock was tipped as a likely star following his ...