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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...

Jockeys will be allowed to use their discretion over the final 100 metres of a race after the Australian Racing Board (ARB) bowed to pressure from industry stakeholders to change the new whip rules...

Punters who understand and use horse body language as an aid to their handicapping are giving themselves an edge. They are getting a second opinion on the horse's ability, not from papers or the t...

While Australia can lay to claim to having some of the best thoroughbreds in the world, its betting industry – one of the fundamental elements of racing – is many lengths inferior to that of oth...