The Australian Turf Club’s hopes that Racing NSW’s show cause action will be resolved by Christmas have taken a backward step with no outcome from the latest meeting between the parties on Friday.
As he closes in on a century of Hong Kong winners and a real live opportunity for a first Group 1 success since his arrival, trainer Mark Newnham reflects on all that he has learned and why the city has worked so well for him.
Rob Wood, a fixture at Entain for 13 years, will leave the global wagering company in 2026.
Next week’s Victoria Racing Club annual general meeting is set to prove a non-event with no additional candidates coming forward to contest the three available board positions.
In almost every major racing jurisdiction in the world, the relationship between horse racing and gambling and/or wagering is under the spotlight. Recent developments in North America, England and Australia show how tangled that relationship has become.
Racing Australia’s role as a national racing body is often lambasted, but it is the system, not the organisation which it created, that needs reform. Bren O’Brien asks if the answer to racing’s problems may be found in other national sports.
Sydney will lose its only metropolitan greyhound racing venue, with Wentworth Park to close in 2027, while the government will make key changes to the way the code is administered by Greyhound Racing NSW.
The Queensland government wants Racing Queensland to drive reform of Racing Australia’s voting system, utilising The Next Lap report to call for Queensland racing to better represent its interests at the national level and end the veto that Victoria and New South Wales enjoy.
A race named after one Western Australian Hall Of Fame inductee has been completely dominated by another, with Bob Peters winning his eighth edition of the Northerly Stakes as both an owner and breeder, this time with a horse by a shuttle stallion out of a female line which extends back over 200 years in Australia.
Prominent Gold Coast businesswoman Rebecca Frizelle’s short time on the Racing Queensland board has come to an end, leaving only five directors remaining.
