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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 ...

The John Size-trained Voile Rouge may be an unknown on the treacherous all-weather, but he ticks every other box ahead of today's Broadwood Handicap (1,650m) at Sha Tin. With no trophy race, the B...

What makes up a good system? Well, the answer is any set of rules that actually works and comes up with winners at profitable odds! Seriously, though, this is something a lot of people have thoug...

In last month’s PPM we listed and scrutinised a number of common pitfalls and mistakes made by the average punter. We also re-examined a number of racing’s so called golden rules of the past, to...

At the moment Australian racing should be pretty pleased with itself. Booming carnivals, record prizemoney and TAB turnover reflect a healthy portrait of a flourishing industry. One aspect ?that...

My father, a throwback from the Victorian age, was often given to uttering platitudes as though he had just invented them. When my interest in dog-paddling across the treacherous English channel h...

In this series of articles, we’ll be looking at the favourite approaches of a wide range of international professionals. We want to know about their pet ploys, their staking ideas, and even th...