Wild West 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...

The Quarterback  may have earned a trip west with a scintillating victory in Thursday’s  $150,000 Dilmah Earl Grey Stakes  (1000m) at Flemington. Trainer  Robbie Griffiths  revealed he will con...

Symon Wilde and his father Bill were only too happy to welcome stakes-performed Bertonic into their stable last month and are cautiously optimistic they can return the talented galloper to his best...

Sepoy's defeat in the Todman Stakes has opened up the Golden Slipper market and given heart to connections of his rivals.Until Saturday, Sepoy had a stranglehold on betting for the $3.5 million Sli...

Wherever gambling takes place the door to corruption always opens and sadly for the cricket world the door has exploded open. The current allegations of match fixing provide extraordinary reading f...

As you all know I have been tinkering with what I call my Pensioner Plan where I am attempting to develop a system that will select a sensible number of collects simply based on a wildcat approach ...

It's going to take an outlandish offer to buy Stagger, the latest bush two-year-old with a boom set to hit Sydney racing this week.Trained at Orange in central west NSW, Stagger ran modest time but...