Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
At the risk of being branded a PVL cheerleader, this sheer amount misinformation being circulated by racing industry participants such as form analyst John Walter can’t be allowed to pass without correction, for it poisons the proposed sale of Rosehill debate. Here is the truth about money owed to Racing NSW by the Australian Racing […]
Australian Turf Club Funds generated from a rezoned racecourse (sale of Rosehill) with a Metro Station would secure the financial future of the ATC into the next century Sale would allow creation of 25,000 much-needed new homes Proposed sale of Rosehill offers unprecedented benefits for the entire community, not just racing The proposed sale has […]
RACING INDUSTRY The Hon. MARK LATHAM (22:06): The whacky plan for the sale of Rosehill racecourse is getting whackier by the day. On the weekend Alex Smith ofThe Sydney Morning Herald reported government sources saying that the racecourse could be moved to the brick pit site at Homebush. There is only one problem: The pit is filled […]
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This is a previously unpublished portion of the transcript of evidence from the 2015 Sam Kavanagh cobalt inquiry.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. […]
