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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 ...

Last month, I wrote about the life and career of R.W. 'Georgie' Wood, an English schoolteacher who created and published a string of top-selling books, booklets and systems in the 1940s through to...

The English writer Alan Potts, whose brilliant work has been mentioned in PPM the past year or so, makes dazzling statement about betting on single selections. It is on page 235 of The Inside Tr...

The English writer Alan Potts, whose brilliant work has been mentioned in PPM the past year or so, makes dazzling statement about betting on single selections. It is on page 235 of The Inside Tr...

A friend of mine told me recently that he always knew when he was getting a 'value' price on a selection. He experienced, he said, a tremendous rush of anticipation a tingling feeling he often fel...

The best advice any punter can take on board is that which urges him to protect his own pocket. It's advice that the majority of punters dare to defy, usually at their own expense. Certainly, we'...

I was having a few beers recently with a keen punting friend of mine and during the inevitable racing discussions he emphatically stated he would not back any horse under $3.00 (2/1) though he did...