learning from the lessons of the past

Fabulous article here about one of the earliest form gurus, Pack McKenna. In this era of technology with everything available at your fingertips, it's very hard to imagine just what you'd have to do to properly analyse form back in those days. My old mentor Mark Read told stories of learning from his mother, creating his own database of horses using cards, recording trackwork, previous runs etc.

And now most punters whinge about having to pay anything to get ratings and form guides....

Thanks to Pull The Pocket for highlighting this great article. It just goes to show, the more hard work you put in, the better your results will be.