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Insights into national thoroughbred racing for Monday 18 November 2024 to Sunday 24 November 2024. * There were 51 race meetings held across Australia last week with 3,422 horses compe...

There were 47 race meetings held across Australia last week with 3,198 horses competing in 340 races for a total prize money purse of $19,011,500 .

There were 71 race meetings held across Australia last week with 4,512 horses competing in 499 races for a total prize money purse of $46,607,500 .

Predictions of a major downturn in yearling sales proved unfounded at the first four sessions of the Magic Millions sale with just a 16 per cent drop on 2008 figures.Aushorse Marketing said the Gol...

Talented Queensland sprinter Swiss Ace could be a surprise Melbourne visitor for the Group One Lightning Stakes and Newmarket Handicap at Flemington.Trainer Mick Mair expects to make a decision soo...

Paul O'Sullivan's flashy-looking four-year-old Cai Bao In will be suited by stepping up to 2,000m for the first time on Sunday and can act as a banker in a jackpot-boosted Triple Trio at Sha Tin. N...

Peter Snowden and Gerald Ryan may have vastly different numbers heading into February’s $1 million Sportingbet Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m), but even at this early stage they appear to have two of...

Damien Oliver says he nearly drove off the road on the way home from Ballarat races last week, after taking a call that sees him replacing Gerald Mosse as the jockey for Americain in next week's Em...

As trainer Frank Ritchie takes part in this week's 25th anniversary celebrations of the 1986 Cox Plate, the star of the show is relaxing in a paddock across the Tasman.Every time Ritchie travels no...

Fitness plays such an important role in horse racing, and so few punters really know much about how to assess it, that we assigned Statsman to set out in detail his own expert views on this import...