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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 ...
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...
Lee Freedman is leaving his options open with promising young stayer Mount Everest.Freedman, who returned from the Gold Coast Magic Millions yearling sales on Monday, entered Mount Everest for the ...
Golden Slipper and Blue Diamond Stakes runner-up Zizou is on the comeback trail after a stint at stud last spring and is likely to return to racing in the Group One Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield.Gary...
Talented sprinter Burdekin Blues could have two stablemates as surprise companions on a trip to Melbourne for the Group One Newmarket Handicap at Flemington in March.Trainer Barry Baldwin is consid...
Gai Waterhouse is making pertinent comments about the state of on-course racing. In her website blog (www.gaiwaterhouse.com.au), the #1 Lady of Racing says: 'I was talking to a good friend of mine ...
Sad to see the great Brian Mayfield-Smith decide to give up training because of a cash-flow problem...The big question for racing is how many other trainers are in the same leaky boat? Word around ...
Racing Victoria Chairman, Michael Duffy, has issued the following statement into the investigation of Damien Oliver's bet on Miss Octopussy at Moonee Valley on 1 October 2010:Following the completi...
THE Freedman brothers are leaving their magnificent training complex on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, reports the Daily Telegraph.It says: Anthony Freedman, the sole occupant these days of the f...
It was a rare day on August 14, 2010: I was at a racetrack on a Saturday. These days yours truly is very much an entrenched stay at home punter. However, fellow PPM contributor and good friend, The...
Leviathan owner Lloyd Williams won his third Bendigo Cup when Tanby easily held out his higher-weighted stablemate At First Sight, but it might not be enough to get the Galileo gelding into the Mel...
The issue that has to be aired! It's been left to feisty Gai Waterhouse to attack the massive internationalisation of the Melbourne Cup. Gai says overseas stayers have an unfair advantage when it c...
The jumps racing debacle rolls on...Now, the jumps supporters have gone cap-in-hand BEGGING for a change of mind by those in officialdom who have decided to end the sport in Victoria. The jumps peo...
Top apprentice Jason Maskiell is negotiating with trainers keen for him to join their stable after he was sacked by trainer Mick Price due to a drinking problem.Maskiell's manager John Nikolic said...