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Extracts From Racing NSW Draft Strategic Plan – NSW Jockeys Earn Twice as Much as QLD Hoops – And Why Every Stablehand Wants to Work For the Blues

Returns to Trainers, Jockeys and Stablehands The exponential increases in prizemoney in NSW has not only benefited the owners, but has seen trainers, jockeys and stablehands all receive growth in incomes that far outstrips any other state in Australia. This shared success through the distribution of prizemoney has ensured that all participants in NSW have […]

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Extracts From Racing NSW Draft Strategic Plan – Rosehill

by : peterprofitracing8 months ago

ATC unsolicited proposal to the NSW Government for the sale of Rosehill Racecourse The ATC has been progressing an unsolicited proposal to the NSW Government for the sale of Rosehill Racecourse. Racing NSW will be analysing this proposal in detail and ensuring the proper due diligence is completed and the outcomes are in the best […]

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QLD and NSW’s Stance Against Beating Up Horses are Just Hollow Words in the Wind

by : peterprofitracing8 months ago

https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC15082409.mp4 Watch Danielle Veivers flog the living bejesus out of the horse in the blue silks with red sleeves This Punter Rocks at Albion Park a fortnight ago. Veivers hits the horse more than 20 times, most of the strikes using force generated by the use of the elbow or shoulder when applying the whip, many […]

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How on Earth Did This Get Dismissed?

by : peterprofitracing8 months ago

The was a protest 2nd v 1st in the third race last night. Dougs Platter in the black and white in the 1-1 v Cya Art in the yellow inside him and behind the leader. Jack Callaghan v Josh Gallagher. Alleged interference on the home turn and at the top of the straight. Margin a […]

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Trying to Save His Owners a Few Hundred Bucks Cost Toby Edmonds 3 Grand

by : peterprofitracing8 months ago8 months ago

Toby Edmonds yesterday was found guilty by NSW Stewards of injecting his horse Burning Bell within one clear day of a racing engagement. Edmonds was fined $3000. He was a bit unlucky. Burning Bell was set to race in the Mothers Gift at Grafton on the Thursday of the carnival. The horse was injected a […]

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Born To Run Butchered

by : peterprofitracing8 months ago

Born to Run is the theme song of the Carnival of Cups, which goes to show that the organisers of the event from HRNSW know as much about Bruce Springsteen as Chris Gleeson knows about clean racing. The song is not about standardbreds being bred to run, it’s about two desperate kids in a depressed […]

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The Cid, The Swab, and the Fire Sale

by : peterprofitracing9 months ago9 months ago

The Cid had won only 1 of its last 16 starts when it lined up for the Final of the Regional Championships in Newcastle on the 17th of May. With Happy Jack Callaghan in the cart driving for his trainer The Cid won, and the connections of the horse took home a $54 000 first […]

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Belle From Burnie on Brick Pits and Frogs

by : peterprofitracing9 months ago9 months ago

Not exactly sure where the frogs are but I presume they live in the brick pit pond, where the water is. The brick pit is an excavation about a 100m drop below the surrounding land, the brick pit walk is an elevated walk that goes out over space across the pit. Access to the pit […]

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Rosehill is Just a Remake of the Empire Strikes Back

by : peterprofitracing9 months ago9 months ago

What has become crystal clear from the Rosehill Inquiry is that the active voices on the issue fall broadly into four camps. There are the animal welfare groups who are opposed to racing full stop. How the views of these people whose aim is to shut racing down are relevant to this inquiry into the […]

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Always Remember That the Comedian’s a Bear

by : peterprofitracing9 months ago9 months ago

The picture you see at the top of this story is the aerial view of the Brickpit at Homebush, one of the options that was revealed for the site a new Western Sydney racecourse should Rosehill be sold. The Brickpit is home to the green and golden bell frog, a threatened species that is listed […]