Hi everyone. I, like many others that have visited this excellent forum, am a relative newcomer to the exciting world of punting. I have been actively betting for just over a year after most of my friends had been doing it for years.

I reckon that I can analyse the form pretty well now but the one thing that I still struggle with the classes that races are allocated. Several times I have lost out because a horse has gone up in grade, I haven't realised, backed it lost my dough. The reverse applies. A horse drops in grade, I don't pick it, and it wins.

Could you great forum-ites please give me (us) a breakdown or description the different types of classes / grades of races.

Seeker