Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Today’s meeting at Kyneton has been abandoned due to the state of the track after just one race. Which is bizarre given that they were racing on a Good 3 track and there was no storm or other unexpected weather event. It was a surprise to see the horses throwing up such big clods of […]
David Barwell Sydney Morning Herald: October 19, 2025 — 1.30pm A plan to redevelop Wentworth Park into an urban park and sporting complex is ramping up as the City of Sydney Council releases images of what the site could look like if the long-standing greyhound racing track at the site is bulldozed to make way […]
The ninth running of Sydney’s Group 1 $20 million TAB Everest set a new record for World Pool wagering today as a 50,000 plus crowd at Royal Randwick watched Hong Kong’s Ka Ying Rising win the world’s richest race on turf. Watched by hundreds of millions of other viewers around the world, Ka Ying Rising […]
The MRC parted ways with two CEOs in 12 months. It cost the club $2 million ByDanny Russell and Cameron Houston October 17, 2025 — 7.30pm Melbourne Racing Club forked out almost $2 million in severance payments to cut ties with its past two chief executive officers in a turbulent 12 months that saw former chairman John […]
Do you want the long story about the NSW Parliamentary Committee Report into Possible contempt arising from the inquiry into the proposal to develop Rosehill Racecourse or the short one? We will give you the short version because the long one is boring. Racing NSW did absolutely nothing wrong, nor did Peter V’Landys. The whole thing […]
For someone who for a long time has been touted as a millionaire financier and self-made success story the recently departed in mysterious circumstances for MRC Chairman John Kanga sure does run a very strange business. Metropolitan Capital is Kanga’s primary business vehicle. It advertises on its website that it is a specialist finance and […]
Story by our friend the great UK racing writer Will Jones, author of The Black Horse is Dying, Greed Corruption Exploitation Injustice We have paused The Black Horse Newsletters to complete the third book in The Black Horse Trilogy. BEHIND EVERY FORTUNE LIES A CRIME will be published in early 2026. Following the first two […]
Controversial former MRC Chairman John Kanga offered his brother-in-law employment after his release from jail after being convicted of multiple frauds committed to feed his gambling addiction. Constantinos ‘Con’ Athanasiadis, at the time a finance broker who was married to Kanga’s sister, served 8 months in prison in 2018 after pleading guilty in the County […]
This interview by Adam Pengilly with Racing Victoria CEO Aaron Morrison appears in the latest edition of the excellent racing publication Idol Horse. It is well worth a read, as is Idol Horse. From Mini Mutiny To Melbourne Cup: Morrison Lifts Lid On Racing’s Tipping Point Aaron Morrison walked into the hot seat as Racing […]
Ausssie racing man and literary giant Gerald Murnane has once more missed out on winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, this time beaten by a writer from the land of Kincsem, the legendary Hungarian mare who went through her 54 start career at home and abroad unbeaten, including wins in the Goodwood Cup in England […]
