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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...
A sudden shortage of senior jockeys has given at least two apprentice riders an unexpected shot at black-type success at Randwick on Saturday.As six of the top 10 jockeys on the premiership table a...
Trainer Gary Portelli has spent as much time psychoanalysing Something Anything as he has on the horse's physical preparation and reckons he has got him figured out.The five-year-old has been consi...
Trainer Guy Walter is preparing to raise the bar again for in-form mare Foxstar who will be nominated for this week's Villiers Stakes.Walter said he would also enter her in a restricted race on Sat...
A crack at the Grp 2 Villiers Stakes 1600m at Randwick on Dec 18 looms for Thankgodyou'rehere after his powerful win in Thursday's Hawkeshury Gold Cup. The lightly raced 5YO improved his career sta...
Stablemates Rags To Riches and Pepperwood will be under the spotlight for a possible trip to Sydney for next month's Villiers Stakes when they clash at Eagle Farm on Saturday.The pair will meet in ...
The talented but erratic Hard Liquor will be out to enhance his Villiers Stakes prospects when he shoots for back-to-back city wins on Saturday.The four-year-old was described by Anthony Cummings' ...
Jockey Chris Munce was in red hot form with a personal best five winners on the seven event program at Doomben.Munce, Brisbane's leading rider and winner of last season's jockeys' premiership, had ...
The Villiers Stakes is a race close to the heart of John O'Shea.It was eleven years ago that Grey And Gold won the summer feature, delivering O'Shea his first Group victory as a trainer.He had not ...
It has been a case of swings and roundabouts for apprentice Sam Clipperton who has picked up the Villiers Stakes mount on Tindal.Clipperton won the Listed Festival Stakes earlier this month aboard ...