Yulong Crown 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...

It might have taken Always Something three years to get himself back in the winner's circle, but he can strike while the iron is hot with a light weight and a good draw in the Rotary Centenary Chal...

A new-found maturity has the optimistically-named Something Anything on the verge of realising a dream for his owners in the Group Two Villiers Stakes.The five-year-old beat a small but classy fiel...

Something Anything's Villiers Stakes success has his team dreaming of Group One glory.The five-year-old has taken a long time to live up to trainer Gary Portelli's belief in his ability but he now ...

NO NOTHING THIS WEEK.Sorree! Yes of course you can get "something," if you want.But what I really wanted to ask you is if you'd ever gone a week without deciding on a bet.Many punters haven't.Here'...

Brendan Delaney is used to calling races across Victoria, whether at thoroughbred trials at Cranbourne or Tatura, or the greyhounds at Warrnambool. But his lifelong passion for race calling is ab...

Those Oakleigh Plate weights are really causing a stir...Peter Moody has joined Gai Waterhouse in firing a missile at them. He has 4 runners in the big sprint but he reckons Lucky Secret is 'the we...