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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...

A meeting between leading industry figures and the new board of Racing NSW has set the scene for a revision of race programming and handicapping in the state.Proposals for the changes will be sent ...

There's already fiery feedback from the Sal Perna report into racing's so-called darker side... Victorian Jockeys Association CEO Des O'Keefe vehemently disagrees with Perna's finding that the "per...

Betfair today corrected a number of important factual errors in the ongoing debate about industry funding and in doing so opened the door for Racing NSW to generate more than $10 million a year in ...

Not surprisingly, Australian Racing Board's new CEO Peter McGauran has come out and blasted the ABC's Four Corners program on alleged race-fixing and money laundering. He reckons the program's scre...

Back in the February edition of Practical Punting Monthly, regular readers may have read my discourse entitled “The Rules for Slipper Success” and in it I had attempted to outline some fairly prec...