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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...

David Hayes says Nicconi's "winnable weight" in Saturday's Newmarket Handicap at Flemington has swayed him into running the four-year-old in the $1 million event.Nicconi will carry 56kg, one kilo l...

David Hayes says Nicconi's "winnable weight" in Saturday's Newmarket Handicap at Flemington has swayed him into running the four-year-old in the $1 million event.Nicconi will carry 56kg, one kilo l...

When outsider Sparky Miss won the ABCOS Adelaide Million, a race with a first prize of $408,000, I'm sure most punters shook their heads in disbelief. After all, how could a youngster who'd been o...

Brilliant sprinter Reward For Effort will be an acceptor for Saturday's Group Three McEwen Stakes at Moonee Valley, but trainer Peter Moody says he is far from a certain starter if the track is sig...

Sth Aussie mare Southern Speed will run in the Cox Plate instead of the Caulfield Cup - and Damien Oliver is being touted as the jockey. Co- trainer Leon Macdonald confirms that Southern Speed, win...

Weather will be the key factor in where emerging sprint star Rain Affair runs on Saturday with trainer Joe Pride eyeing the Apollo Stakes in Sydney and the Futurity in Melbourne.While Rain Affair i...