Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Greyhound Racing NSW seem to be acting a bit silly by refusing the NSW State Government’s $10 million compensation offer when its lease on Wentworth Park expires next year. After all, what tenant in the world gets paid a 7 figure sum by their landlord when their tenancy agreement ends? Most people struggle just to […]
The NSW Greyhound Welfare Integrity Commission is taking a hard line against trainer who make their dogs disappear without trace into thin air, and quite rightly too because we all know where dogs that disappear go, and it ain’t any place where they are still barking or breathing, and that is no good at all. […]
The NSW Greyhound Welfare Integrity Commission has disqualified self-professed patched member of the Finks outlaw motorcycle gang and greyhound trainer Nathan Lazarus for 24 months for breaching the terms of a prohibition preventing him from entering any property where racing dogs are kept or trained. The disqualification comes after Lazarus, a former ADF member turned […]
Now is probably not the time for the NSW greyhound industry to be attracting bad news, for its got enough of its own, what with an Inquiry on the go, the former CEO a certainty to be referred to police with a recommendation to charge, and the dogs across the ditch on death row waiting […]
Q: Mr Macaulay, we were talking before the break about your resignation. We had gotten up to the email from you saying, “I indicate were I to resign I will only do so because I am forced to do so.” You then subsequently sent an email that said, “In compliance with your request, and on […]
Robert ‘Bobajob’ Macauley was asked by counsel assisting the Inquiry into Greyhound Racing NSW to explain why he resigned as the CEO of the organization. Bobajob gave an extremely long-winded answer (excerpts below) in which he painted himself as a true leader nobly doing the brave and righteous thing to save his organisation. Q. … […]
Prior to the appointment of the controversial and now departed Robert ‘Bobajob’ Macauley as the CEO of Greyhound Racing NSW, the Principal Racing Association for the dog racing industry had its office at Oxford Street in Darlinghurst near Kings Cross, a somewhat strange location for an outfit presiding over a sport that raced at 2 […]
Most people are unaware that there is a Commission of Inquiry into Greyhound NSW going on at the moment, because there has been bugger all media coverage of it, but it’s happening. The inquiry is being held under Part 8 of the Greyhound Racing Act (NSW) 2017, a piece of legislation that gives the Greyhound […]
In the same week that the NZ government announced that it was closing greyhound racing down on welfare grounds, the peak body of the sport in NSW have gone and named a Group 1 race after a man who was once disqualified for 12 months for breaching animal welfare regulations by selling dogs for export […]
The announcement by the NSW Racing Minister that he has ordered GWIC to conduct an inquiry into various matters concerning Greyhound Racing NSW while under just-resigned CEO Rob Macaulay’s leadership has gained widespread publicity in recent days, mainly for all the wrong reasons. Allegations 0f animal cruelty made by GRNSW’s former chief vet Alex Brittan […]
