Run The Numbers
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Run The Numbers - The right kind of shuttler
The last two champion first-season sires in Australia have been shuttle stallions. With Wootton Bassett and Lucky Vega posting early two-year-old winners, could this season represent a hat-trick? Is Australia in the midst of a shuttle stallion revival?
Run The Numbers - The state(s) of the nation
The recent release of the Racing Australia Fact Book allows us to compare the role Australia’s six states and two territories play in the national thoroughbred landscape. This week’s Run The Numbers looks at each state’s contribution.
Run The Numbers - The world’s best sires of 2024
As the year comes to an end, Run The Numbers goes around the world to look at who the leading sires of 2024 have been, including an Australian-bred star at the top of the global winners’ list for the second straight year.
Run The Numbers – The beauty of back-to-back
Overpass entered rare air with his second successive win in the Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot. The week’s Run The Numbers looks at the 56 horses this century who have been good enough to win the same Australian Group 1 race on multiple occasions.
Run The Numbers – Breeze-up revival as two-year-old market hits new heights
A 34 per cent lift in Australian investment has powered the Australasian breeze-up market to a record season. Run The Numbers breaks down the data from the three sales held over the past five weeks.
Run The Numbers – Smashing success – Brave Smash breaks new ground for Japanese horses
Brave Smash now holds a special place in racing history as the only Japanese-bred horse to have both won an Australian Group 1 and sired a Group 1 winner in Australia. Run The Numbers breaks down his influence in Australia and the ongoing legacy of Japanese bloodlines.
Run The Numbers – A huge Cup week for J-Mac, Waller and Yulong
While it was James McDonald, who (rightly) dominated the Flemington carnival headlines with a record 11 winners, it was also a successful week for a host of other jockeys, trainers, sires, breeders and owners. Run The Numbers runs the rule over the Cup week stats.