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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 ...

  Racing Victoria has confirmed that  top class Japanese stayer Admire Rakti will come to Melbourne for this year’s Caulfield and Melbourne Cups...

Japanese horses of the calibre of  Epiphaneia  don't turn up in the Audemars Piguet QE II Cup (2,000m) every year and that makes the four-year-old the horse to beat in the $14 million Group One sh...

CRAIG Williams added another Japanese feature race to his profile when he won the $568,000 Group 2 Kanto Oaks under lights at the Kawaski circuit in Tokyo last night. It’s the biggest success ...

Astute trainer Mick Price was suitably impressed yesterday by the performance of imports 

Looks like that hot Japanese prospect Jaguar Mail will not be running in the Caulfield or Melbourne Cups. A report in The Australian says: 'Japanese stayer Jaguar Mail will almost certainly miss th...

Bart Cummings admits the likely return of the Japanese horses in 2010 will be another challenge to his chances of claiming a 13th Melbourne Cup.The federal government has indicated quarantine proto...