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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...

In the last issue (June PPM) I covered the idea of learning to "talk to the horse" when you get to the races. You'll recall I wrote about the attitude of the horse and I pointed to the fact that m...

From HK RACING POSTwww.racing.scmp.comHong Kong top liners will be spread far and wide at the end of next month with three runners in Dubai and Green Birdie confirmed to return to Japan with some u...

PETER Moody believes stablemates Thermal Current and Dissident have the credentials to upset the favored runners in Saturday’s Golden Rose at Rosehill. Moody said both colts went into the $1 mill...

In the run-up to the HK$14 million Champions Mile, the questions were as much about whether Able Friend was still at his best as they were about whether Luger was good enough to beat him and ...

Trainer Mat Ellerton says Crystal Lily is not quite at the top of her game for her first-up assignment in Saturday's McEwen Stakes at Moonee Valley but believes her class will carry her a long way....

In the biggest racing stable in the world, owned by a family of fabulously wealthy Arab sheikhs there was a place near the top on Saturday for a man who shampoos the horses and picks up the dung.Mu...