Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is a previously unpublished portion of the transcript of evidence from the 2015 Sam Kavanagh cobalt inquiry. It raises huge questions about the integrity of a number of people across both codes of racing, and – if the witness’s evidence were true, which we are not asserting they are – casts several people in […]
The secretly funded new seemingly anti-Peter V’landys racing website thestraight.com.au broke new ground in its apparent campaign against the Racing NSW CEO by reciting from a speech given to the largely irrelevant upper house in the state given by the totally irrelevant MP Mark Latham under parliamentary privilege. https://thestraight.com.au/all-tip-no-iceberg-latham-launches-extraordinary-parliamentary-attack-on-part-time-peter-vlandys/ In his speech the madcap former […]
This is is what the wowsers from the ABC broadcast tonight about the NRL Vegas round and the punt. The hypocrites. How quickly they forget. I remember watching the Miracle Mile on channel 2 as a kid, and seeing the ABC presenters spruik the race, the odds and a bet. To some extent I reckon […]
The hot word around the streets of Sydney’s west is that former Harness Racing NSW CEO and long-time Peter V’Landys handbag carrier and mate John Dumesny is about to be appointed to one of the three vacant independent spots on the board of the NRL club Wests Tigers. In fact the mail is that the […]
Many in the racing industry are wondering how the Tasmanian based former Asian Racing Journal columnist Bren O’Brien has managed to fund his immediately prodigious start-up racing website the straight.com.au, and how he has obtained the funds to employ and pay a suite of staff that includes racing journalists, website designers, accountants, and admin workers. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Former harness racing chief John Dumesny, once described as a ‘lifelong friend’ of Peter V’landys, is a member of the three-person panel appointed to help the Racing Minister choose the next chairman of Racing NSW. New South Wales racing minister David Harris established the selection panel in December, with Elizabeth Mildwater, the head of […]
Rugby League fans all over NSW and across the nation are rejoicing at the news that Peter V’Landys has elected to grace the greatest game of all with his presence as leader of the game for at least the next three years. Everyone except the Victorians of course. After being totally carved up by him […]
The knockers are out with their knives opposing the sale of Rosehill to create 25 000 new homes where the track currently is a land starved, unaffordable city in which young people largely can’t afford to achieve the great Australian dream by buying themselves a home. Are these anti’s kidding themselves, or are they simply […]
When pressed on the likelihood of McLachlan getting the top job at Racing Victoria, V’landys had nothing but praise. “I think Gill McLachlan will do a brilliant job,” V’landys said. “He is one of the leading sports administrators in the world, so Racing Victoria will be very fortunate if they get him as chairman. “I […]
There have been a lot of knocks on the Racing Victoria Chairman elect Gillon McLachlan, most of them being that he lacks the racing experience to stand up toe to toe with Peter V’Landys in the internecine war between the two veto holding states on the Racing Australia board. So RV have decided to fight […]
