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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...

DOMINANT Victorian trainer Peter Moody is miffed by suggestions that leading trainers are less likely to face drug testing because they are too important to racing, reports the Melbourne Herald Sun...

Impressive Caulfield winner Aloha is likely to go for a spell. Trainer Mick Price says: 'That was run number seven this campaign...I would say she'll go for a spell because I want a horse for the a...

RATINGS ARE NOT EASYAs someone who has been rating horses for public consideration for more than thirty years, I feel I can speak with some experience on the subject. Let me tell you, if you haven'...

The step up from midweek racing to autumn carnival glory seems assured for Once Were Wild and Griffon who sailed through their assignments at Canterbury on Wednesday.Oaks-bound filly Once Were Wild...

The step up from midweek racing to autumn carnival glory seems assured for Once Were Wild and Griffon who sailed through their assignments at Canterbury on Wednesday.Oaks-bound filly Once Were Wild...

Trainer Noel Doyle could be forced to revise plans with Queensland's leading Magic Millions Guineas hope, Biggles.Doyle was giving serious consideration to sending Biggles into next month's $1 mill...