The Tourist Horse

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 ...

Where have all the jockeys gone? Not up north, for sure. Just Racing reports: 'It is...a fact that such is the shortage of riders in one of Australia's tourist capitals - Cairns - that the club the...

NEARLY 12 months ago to the day, Kerrin McEvoy left the Sandown quarantine centre with a confident smile on his face having partnered Godolphin's spring carnival raider All The Good in a stirring g...

Gold Coast Turf Club chairman Hoss Heinrich believes the $5 million Magic Millions race day in January would be doomed to failure if it was ever moved away from Queensland's tourist strip.Speculati...

Gold Coast Turf Club chairman Hoss Heinrich believes the $5 million Magic Millions race day in January would be doomed to failure if it was ever moved away from Queensland's tourist strip.Speculati...

Five-year-old mare Roccin Jo has extended a Moonee Valley winning streak for South Australian trainer Dennis O'Leary.O'Leary has made the 22-hour round trip from the coastal tourist town of Normanv...

Can you ever imagine yourself winning a billion dollars? Okay, not a billion Australian dollars but a billion Hong Kong dollars? This is about $200 million in Australian currency. Sounds like a fa...