A meeting set to decide the immediate future of Australia’s Pattern racing protocols has been scuppered, leaving national black type reform in abeyance.
The Straight has learned that Tuesday’s Racing Australia monthly board meeting, in which a motion to endorse the Black Type Guidelines was on the agenda, was abandoned before it even began.
It is understood that Racing NSW’s delegate Peter V’landys was unable to attend, leaving Racing Australia’s board with little option but to postpone the September meeting because it didn’t have a quorum.
Racing NSW and Racing Victoria, whose chair Tim Eddy is its director on the national board, hold the powers of veto over Racing Australia.
The remaining directors on the Racing Australia board are Racing Queensland’s Graham Quirk, Rob Rorrison (Racing SA), Colin Holt (Racing WA) and Canberra Racing Club director Les Boag who represents the Australian Capital Territory club, Thoroughbred Racing NT and Tasracing.
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