Through The Never Horse

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...

Trainer Todd Pletcher finally got the monkey off his back, while jockey Calvin Borel continued his amazing dominance of America's most famous race when Super Saver rallied to win Saturday's Kentuck...

Justice and commonsense prevails...Not surprisingly, an appeal hearing has thrown out the one-month suspension given to Kerrin McEvoy for his losing ride on Shakes at Randwick on March 18. Stewards...

Keepin' The Dream's reputation as a NSW provincial and country racetrack giant-killer was further enhanced with his dominant win in the $150,000 Rowley Mile at Hawkesbury on Saturday.Not for the fi...

Beautifully-bred filly Plucky Belle has landed her first metropolitan win at Sandown and leading trainer Peter Moody believes she will graduate to stakes class given time.The three-year-old is a da...

Whilst the Doomben 10,000 was robbed of a lot of interest in the last fortnight with the withdrawal of consecutive pre-post favourites Black Caviar and Hay List, it still provided a great result fo...

Related proved he had well and truly shaken off his Golden Slipper hangover with his commanding victory in the Listed Hawkesbury Guineas.The Bart Cummings-trained colt stormed into contention for n...