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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...
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 ...
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...
Jeff Lloyd has answered a last-minute call from New Zealand trainer Murray Baker to ride Fully Fledged in the Group One Telegraph Handicap at Trentham on Saturday.Lloyd and Baker enjoyed success wh...
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...
In the first of two articles, PPM expert Richard Hartley Jnr examines the impact of speed and times in racing- and tells how these factors can be used to help your selection process. In America, ...
Can any Practical Punting Monthly readers remember back to the 'dark' days before 1985, when there wasn't such a magazine as this? Doesn't bear thinking about, does it? In those bygone days, punt...
Since the par (standard) racetime charts for Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney were published in Practical Punting Monthly in September 2004, I’ve had numerous requests in regard to the publication o...
In this month’s article I present what are believed to be a first when it comes to par (standard) racetime charts: ones for the “new” Randwick track, as well as for the much maligned Kensington (R...
During the period I've been penning the Puntmaster column for Practical Punting Monthly, one of the side benefits has been the feedback from readers. Not all agree with me on some issues, and tha...
In the December 2005 edition of PPM, I wrote an article which attacked one of racing’s most time honored core values, the issue of weights and how it impacted on form analysis. The essence of the ...
In this article I will be explaining how race times, in conjunction with my par time tables, can be put to very good use by both non-time and time handicappers alike: the tables for metro tracks f...
Time handicapping has been very much maligned over the years, with many racing experts making negative comments on times as an important form factor in horse-racing. The legendary Pittsburgh Phil...
The leading US racing media commentator, Andy Beyer, is rightly known as the 'guru' of speed handicapping. He says that he quickly realised that calculating 'speed figures' was the most powerful t...