Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
By Danny Russell August 18, 2024 — 9.56am Harness Racing Victoria has been accused of a “monumental failure of governance” that led to the sport’s governing body losing control of its $100 million land asset at Melton. Angry stakeholders claim HRV has borrowed so much money to keep the sport afloat over the past five […]
Black Caviar is big, hulking, strong, dominant, fierce – and she chews up the ground beneath her hooves. If you’ve never watched her race, you’ve missed out on one of the most soul-stirring experiences, ever. Her front hooves consume the ground before her: she will not be controlled by Mother Earth. She is of the Earth, […]
Fact 1 HRV’s wage bill is $20.3 million. Harness Racing NSW’s is $7.1 million. Fact 2 HRV spends 19.2% of its income on wages and salaries. HRNSW only spends 8.8%. Fact 3 HRNSW spend almost twice the amount on swabbing that HRV does. Fact 4 HRV spends just $291 000 a year on animal welfare. […]
Victorian Harness Racing is in crisis. For years under the watch of Chairman Dale Monteith and his CEO Dayle Brown the principal body HRV spent vast amounts more than it earned, and covered the difference by racking up debt. It was living beyond your means writ large, a near decade spent surfing credit cards and […]
Harness Racing Victoria states in the strongest terms that what has been expressed only creates fear and uncertainty among the stakeholders the bodies are meant to represent, distracting from the collective efforts to resolve the financial complexity that we all face. Translation: It’s all the Kindred Bodies fault. They aren’t representing their members. They are […]
Dale Monteith is the worst Chairman of a harness racing authority in Australian history by panels and bar none. It’s daylight the rest. The numbers tell the story. In the 12 years prior to Monteith’s appointment in 2016 HRV had made an aggregated profit of nearly $6 million dollars. In the 7 years that he […]
In late 2022 we wrote about an unexplained rash of young Stonewall Stud owned horses dying on the track predominantly after suffering catastrophic injuries and breaking down. Stone Walls and Stewards Inquiries – Here We Go Again Tonight it has happened again We are not sure at this stage if the Stonewall Stud 3yo filly […]
Dale Monteith, the genius who as HRV Chairman presided over the financial disaster WE, the Presidents of the Victorian Harness Racing Kindred Bodies, are issuing this urgent and united statement to express our profound concern over the future of Harness Racing in Victoria. A meeting we requested last week with Harness Racing Victoria (HRV) has […]
As we told you a week ago, Group 1 winning Kiwi jockey Matthew Cameron threw a positive swab to drugs just months after being granted a special dispensation to resume his career after his license had been withdrawn for being a convicted sex offender. A Last Chance Blown The drug that Cameron threw positive to […]
