Our hard-working team have been ploughing through some Christmas book options so that you know just what to ask Santa for! While the quality and depth of information available for punters has never been greater – who could have imagined 10 years ago that we would now have free access to video replays of every single race? – trying to gauge a horse’s chances from visual impression remains a furrow far less-ploughed. In truth, paddock-watching is probably never going to be the path to untold riches on its own, but for many serious racecourse-based punters it’s an important piece of the jigsaw and one that arguably deserves greater consideration than given in print.