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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...

JOCKEYS riding at the Sydney carnival will seek a meeting with Racing NSW officials to seek clarification on penalties for whip overuse, reports the Courier-Mail newspaper.Its report by Bart Sincla...

Despite the intransigence of the Australian Racing Board in refusing to listen to calls to change the new whip rules, jockeys will probably not take strike action this weekend. But they are not rul...

That Jason Coyle mystery deepens...Seems there was no blow-up with tycoon owner Nathan Tinkler or co-trainer John Thompson before JC quit the Patinack top-trainer nest. In fact, JC is all love-and-...

Considering the turmoil that Queensland Racing finds itself in during its biggest week, it is not surprising that there will be some anxiety in the Victorian thoroughbred industry about what impli...

Self-inflicted crisis...Racing Victoria, now fiddling with a crisis it created out of nothing, has decided to give steeplechasing another 12 months of shaky life. But if there are too many deaths i...

The whip rules controversy is moving swiftly to crisis point...A number of well-known jockeys are pressing for industrial action. The jockeys want the poorly-framed new rules to be thrown out. They...