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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...

Talented Queensland sprinter Swiss Ace could be a surprise Melbourne visitor for the Group One Lightning Stakes and Newmarket Handicap at Flemington.Trainer Mick Mair expects to make a decision soo...

The Pensioner Plan experiment is moving along with 207 selections for Plan A - the Wildcat selections resulting in a miserable 37 winners (17.87%). On a flat stake win only basis the returns have b...

One winner at $166 in one year would be good...but TWO winners at $166 within 24 hours! That's pretty amazing, even by Knockout Horses standards! That's what our buyers were handed last week. On Th...

Roll up, roll up for the magical transformation of NSW racing - thanks to those nasty corporate bookies and that ever-nasty Betfair mob. They're the ones who'll be funding racing NSW's glittering m...

Amazing...Brisbane's weather has cleared up so well that Doomben officals are now talking about the possibility of a SLOW-7 rating for Sat's Doomben 10,000 meeting. Racecourse manager Warren Willia...

My revision of the Plan A selections of the Pensioner Plan is complete. As you will be aware I logged 500 selections of the original "wildcat" selections and at the end of the record keeping to say...

Last month we began this series which focuses on the 10 systems and staking plans that a group of PPM contributors has voted "the best" of the past 17 years, though they all said they could easily...