Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
So just as it has always been under the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings, Melbourne high society’s man Gillon McLachlan ascends to the throne, the upstart who wanted to throw away the old school tie Andrew Jones gets exiled, and King Gil gets to hand pick his replacement. Perfec this is. King Gil […]
I said very early in his career, if you don’t pull him into line now you’re never going to be able to and I think that Latrell Mitchell has become bigger than some of the people that are trying to control him,” Gould said on Nine’s 100% Footy. “For Latrell the only advice I would […]
This is a previously unpublished portion of the transcript of evidence from the 2015 Sam Kavanagh cobalt inquiry.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 […]
