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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...
A basic horse racing form study mistake, says American handicapping expert James Quinn: crossing off too many horses too early, because they haven't run within 30 to 45 days or their last race loo...
A professional horse racing handicapper on why a betting plan that once paid can stop working, and why, after a frustrating two hours of placed win bets, he still won't bet them to place. In Februa...
How much would you need to bet on every race to make a second income from horse racing? One punter hoped to win $40,000 a year to double his income, and when his betting plan was worked through rac...
Does a horse racing tipster actually bet his own picks? Joe Kristufek picks every race, every day, for a Chicago newspaper, and he answers that straight: his original selections are only a foundati...
Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...
Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...
Track conditions and weight are the two Australian horse racing form factors most punters skim over — "the in-a-hurry punters of modern day racing", as Richard Hartley Jnr put it in Practical Punti...
Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, half the field circled, and still no idea which one to back. Writing in Practical Punting Magazine, Richard Ha...
Most of a Saturday card is not worth studying — which is why Australian horse racing form study starts with picking the race, not the horse. Writing in Practical Punting in June 2000, Richard Ha...
Find the right race on which to bet! This is the first major factor I'm going to focus on in this series of articles. I do this because I've always been convinced that 'bet choice' is the cornerst...
Before you rate a single horse, Australian horse racing form study starts with a question about the race itself: is it even worth analysing? Writing in Practical Punting in May 2000, Richard Hartle...
Should we change the way we think when it comes to analysing form? Are you, perhaps, approaching form from the wrong angle? Can you re-think what you are doing to produce a better result? These a...
In previous articles in this series, I've looked at how to streamline an approach to form and selection, and last month I provided a Ratings Guide for the various classes of races. We can use t...
We have now reached the 'climax' time of our foray into the 'Ratings Guide' approach, the rules of which I've outlined in recent PPM articles. What we have to try to do now is to find the ri...
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