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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...

High profile trainers Mark Kavanagh and Danny O'Brien have been banned for three years and four years respectively for administering cobalt to horses for performance-enhancing purposes. Both Kava...

Judge Russell Lewis, outgoing chairman of the Racing and Appeals Disciplinary Board, has handed down potentially career-ending guilty verdicts to trainers Danny O'Brien, Mark Kavanagh and Melbour...

Flemington trainers  Mark Kavanagh  and  Danny O'Brien  have been issued with notifications from Racing Victoria Stewards on Wednesday morning that horses under their care have returned a positive...

A fourth horse trained by  Danny O’Brien  has returned an elevated Cobalt reading, reports Racing Victoria. Racing Victoria (RV) Stewards have informed O’Brien that the urine sample taken from Bu...

The five Victorian trainers charged over cobalt positives face the possibility of having their licences stripped before their charges are even heard after they were issued show-cause notices by Ra...

There has been another cobalt positive in Victoria, with the  Terry and Karina O’Sullivan -trained Darragh  returning a sample with the prohibited substance in its system. The positive swab came ...