The Spitfire 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...

  Ricky Yiu Poon-fai's London Walk finished down the course at his first local run but left all the clues that a better result will come sooner rather than later and he gets his chance for ...

Manighar madness! Punters are going crazy to nab a share of Manighar for Sat's Underwood. The Peter Moody trained import is currently at $2.40 and has been the best backed runner on the card, accor...

Jockey Hugh Bowman signed off from his debut stint in Hong Kong with another winning double on Sunday but no misgivings about his decision not to return for longer. Bowman misses the final two fi...

Cranbourne trainer Greg Eurell has unearthed a successor to his ill-fated Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker...It's the lightly-raced Love For Ransom, impressive winner at Moonee Valley on Sat. Betstar...