Weather Man 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...

From RACING POST HKTai Sing Yeh returned without much fanfare at the Sha Tin barrier trials yesterday, but you can bet your proverbial bottom dollar he will be back with a bang at the races after h...

Given the weather forecast, there is a degree of irony to his name but the horse regarded by many as Japan's best 2,000m horse,  Lovely Day , is the one to beat in the HK$20 million Audemars Pig...

People You MeetI just took a few minutes off at the races this afternoon to put this up and share it with you.I always seek out interesting people to talk with. So many punters at the racetrack hav...

from RACING POST in HKLightly raced five-year-old Five Clubs has had his issues but seems to have found a niche over the dirt sprint trip and that stands him in good stead in tonight's Tsuen Wan Ne...

Hobart's Hard to BeatI'm in Hobart for the running of the big race at Elwick. Surely one of the world's prettiest sites, with the hills and the Derwent just beyond the back straight, this is a raci...

A key gear change and Joao Moreira back aboard can extract an extra length of effort from Electronic Phoenix and help deliver Triple Trio players a share of a big jackpot at Sha Tin on Saturday,...