The NSW Trainers Association has been cleared of any major wrongdoing in relation to a cancer fundraiser it conducted last year and will proceed with this year’s edition of the charity event next month.
The Mark Hughes Foundation, which supports research into brain cancer, and the NSWTA were cautioned by NSW Fair Trading for conducting the “greatest lunch of the year” fundraiser in 2024 without gaining the appropriate written regulatory authorisation.
But investigators cleared the state thoroughbred trainers’ representative body of allegations of a misappropriation of funds raised at the event, which was organised by the NSWTA in aid of the Mark Hughes Foundation.
According to NSWTA chief executive Richard Callander, last year’s event raised $192,701 for the brain cancer charity.
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