Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
PARTICIPANTS Trainers 2008 – 1497 2023 – 959 Drivers 2008 – 878 2023 – 537 Stablehands 2008 – 1672 2023 – 938 RACING Meetings 2008 – 498 2015 – 444 Races 2008 – 4267 2023 – 4088 Starters 2008 – 38 827 2023 – 37 492 BREEDING Stallions 2008 – 108 2023 – 47 Services […]
Archie HRV does spend 25% of its income on welfare and integrity. Just not on the horses. It’s spent on the dead wood staff in the offices. RWWA traditionally follows and adopts all its policies (all codes) from Vic. WA harness participants should be very afraid…….. And yes RWWA have bungled an industry land asset […]
I don’t think I have ever in my entire life seen a less impressive performance than the one that HRV Chairman Adam Kilgour gave when trying to justify his board’s failures in an interview on SEN earlier this week. Kilgour – whose day job is as a lobbyist to clients including property developers – looks […]
The picture speaks for itself. Mick Stanley might be the first, but he certainly won’t be the last. God save the Queen, for under HRV’s leadership nothing can save Victorian harness racing.
There are 26 race tracks in Victoria. They are expensive to maintain and race at, and most don’t bring in enough consistent revenue to make it worthwhile. The number of tracks will have to be reduced to about 10. To do that the tracks that remain will have to be centered in regions, and take […]
One simple way to read the balance sheet of an unprofitable business to find out what’s gone wrong is not to worry about the dollars, but rather to look at what percentage of the organisation’s income is spent on each category of expense. To get the real picture you need to look at the organisation’s […]
In 2015 Dale Monteith conducted an audit of harness racing commissioned by the Victorian State Government. Monteith made 18 recommendati0ns, which were accepted by the government and introduced. One of them was the reconstitution of the board. That resulted in Monteith shortly after being appointed as HRV Chairperson. Good recommendation that one. Here they are […]
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 […]
