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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...
Caulfield is one of the most famous race tracks in Australia and each spring racing carnvial it stages the famous Caulfield Cup.
Sensible stuff...NSW Gaming and Racing Minister Kevin Greene has OKd a move for NSW bookmakers to operate using Internet access on racecourses. It gives them access to the national betting market i...
He's back (almost)...Former bookmaker Neville Clements has won his appeal against his warning-off from all Victorian racecourses, but he must wait for a further appeal against a similar ruling by Q...
Tom Miscannon might live in Florida, but he is midway through a trip that will see him visit more racetracks in south-east Australia in three weeks than most Victorians will see in a year. It is...
Speaking at his pre-season press briefing at Sha Tin Racecourse last Saturday (Sept 1), the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Chief Executive Officer Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges outlined the Club's commitme...
The Victorian government has endorsed recommendations from a review into an incident involving spectators during this year's Grand Annual Steeplechase.Educational programs about the risks of runawa...
Dragged, kicking and screaming, into the new century...Racing NSW has announced that punters can now bring their laptops to meetings! Hooray! So there is such a thing as enlightenment. The official...
THE Baillieu government has approved one of Melbourne's largest inner-city residential developments at the historic Caulfield racetrack, leaving some residents ''bitterly disappointed'' and warning...
A PLANNED multimillion-dollar makeover of the Moonee Valley track was given the thumbs down by international trainers yesterday, reports The Age.Its report adds: Since overseas horses began coming ...
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