LETSGOHORSERACING is designed to be different to the hundreds of racing websites throughout Australia and in many countries overseas. Most focus on racing news, detailed form, statistics, betting systems, ratings and tips (at a cost), or generally promote a specific thoroughbred business or venture, an industry stake-holder group, race club, racing organisation or administrative body.

LETSGOHORSERACING promises to provide the best of both worlds for those racing enthusiasts who prefer to stay at home or venture no further than their local TAB, PUB or CLUB, as well as those of all age groups who want to travel to feature race meetings in Australia and abroad. Through our GETAWAY AND GO RACING SECTION we hope to assist when it comes to making plans and fulfilling your holiday dreams if they involve travel to a race carnival here or overseas. 

USE OUR GETAWAY AND GO RACING CALENDAR to plan your holiday in Australia or overseas

We plan to provide - on a calendar basis - an insight to the growing number of  racing venues that individuals or families can visit at carnival times and combine with a tourist-type holiday to suit all. We won’t just focus on the big ticket items, like the

Melbourne Cup, Golden Slipper and Super Saturdays, which are already familiar to most. Instead we will highlight other popular and lesser known carnivals throughout Australia and overseas where race-lovers and their families can chose to go for a brief or extended stay. Our coverage will give some history of the event and region, along with tourist tips to ensure that mum and the kids – if they’re not as interested in the racing – can enjoy while dad has his day at the track.

GETAWAY AND GO RACING will be a work in progress with plans to eventually provide calendar-style reviews of carnival meetings from Birdsville to Broome, Cairns to Kangaroo Island and Hong Kong to Hollywood Park.

FREE RATINGS & LATE MAIL

We hope that our DAY AT THE RACES FREE RATINGS & LATE MAIL SERVICE will help you find a winner at the  MAJOR AUSTRALIAN RACE MEETINGS and seasonally in  HONG KONG.

Top Four Ratings and Late Mail are compiled – free of charge – by form analysts from LETSGOHORSE RACING who have worked for bookmakers and racing media organizations. Some still do but want to give something back to the industry which has provided them with a good livelihood. We won’t guarantee any get-rich schemes like some of the tipping web-sites do, nor will we charge for our service. All we ask is that you bet responsibly and promise to do our best to help you find a good priced winner.

LETSGOHORSERACING NEWS SERVICE - just click on the NEWSPAPER ICONS on top right of this page

Rather than try and compete when it comes to day-to-day RACING NEWS the best content available in Australia and Hong Kong will be yours by simply going to the NEWS ICONS (on this page) for  the MELBOURNE HERALD-SUN, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD & SYDNEY DAILY TELEGRAPH, BRISBANE COURIER-MAIL & SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST (HONG KONG) turf sections. This will ensure that website visitors have easy access to the best racing news coverage.

COLUMNIST: GODFREY SMITH - 'Horsing Around' - Archived from the beginning

LETSGOHORSERACING will provide a regular light-hearted look at the racing industry each week through the eyes of columnist GODFREY SMITH – a true-blue racing character whose views will no doubt amuse some but perhaps upset others. He makes no secret of his likes and dislikes – whether they are big or small players on or off the track. He will tell you of his life growing up to starting work and becoming a dad - warts and all - and his love with the punt that still exists.  As a kid he idolized Bert Bryant and Peeping Pete. These days he loves watching Dr Turf, religiously follows the tips of Dean Lester & Shane Templeton and hangs on every word of his favorite caller, Greg Miles. He loves the big carnivals but is equally at home in the bush where he grew up following racing. ‘Gody’ – as he is known to his mates – hasn’t quite embraced some of our new-age racegoers who prefer to fall over drunk rather than have a punt. He has little time for some modern-day racing officials and thinks that some are totally out of touch with what the punter really wants and have managed to lose a couple of generations of racegoers in the process. He prefers the ‘Singo’ approach to administration; idolizes Bart Cummings; thinks Gai Waterhouse, like her former dad TJ, is great for the game and hates racing on these new-fangled Cushion Tracks. Love him or hate him, you’ll want to read what GODFREY has to say.

LETSGOHORSERACING is a NOT-FOR-PROFIT website, which aims purely to cover operational costs once we become fully operational. Apart from the GETAWAY & GO RACING & DAY AT THE RACES RATINGS & LATE MAIL, our coverage will include behind-the-scenes information and opinion based  articles from the various Australian States, Hong Kong and Overseas racing.

THE LETSGOHORSERACING website will be A WORK IN PROGRESS. We welcome your feedback to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The website has been established by a former newspaper sporting and racing editor. He has the support of individuals with knowledge, background and experience spanning many decades in the racing industry and the media in Australia and overseas. They have owned, raced and bred horses and worked in many areas of the racing industry (some still do), understand the needs of the various stakeholders and most of all recognize the fact that without these stake-holders AND MOST OF ALL THE PUNTER, there would be no racing.

SPECIAL THANKS TO THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTE PHOTOGRAPHS ALONG WITH RACING & TOURISM INFORMATION FOR OUR WEBSITE

THE LETSGOHORSERACING website would not be possible without the support of the marketing and communications units of race clubs in Australia and overseas.. We rely heavily on the contribution of various tourism organisations, at a State, National and Overseas level. MANY PHOTOGRAPHS THAT WE USE - especially in GETAWAY AND GO RACING - ARE PROVIDED COURTESY OF RACING AND TOURISM AUTHORITES and their websites. We have some of the best racing photographers providing us with material, spearheaded by Brisbane-based NOEL PASCOE and his daughter, CINDY. Their work incorporates much of the montage on our HOME PAGE along with contributions from the HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB. In our GETAWAY & GO RACING section we feature some terrific photographs of the BIRDSVILLE and OAKBANK carnivals taken by KAREN BROOK, who runs her own studio and is the course photographer at Birdsville.

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