Peter V’landys’ 21-and-a-half-year tenure as Racing NSW CEO stands in sharp contrast to the merry-go-round of executives through equivalent roles in other states. Bren O’Brien examines the implications of too much or too little change at the top.
In the space of the past 12 months, three of Australia’s six state-based thoroughbred principal racing authorities have appointed new CEOs, taking the number of different people to have held that senior title at a PRA to 26 since 2004.
The year 2004 is significant as it was the time when Peter V’landys took charge of Racing NSW. While there has been an extraordinary period of stability at the top of NSW racing since then, elsewhere has resembled a conveyor belt.
Aaron Morrison is the seventh different Racing Victoria CEO that V’landys has sat across the table from, while interim Lachlan Murray is the sixth since Racing Queensland (tricode) was constituted in 2010 – the previous regime under chairman Bob Bentley did not have a CEO position from Jeremy Turner’s departure in 2004 until 2010.
There have been five different bosses of what is now known as Racing SA since 2004, while Tasracing (tricode), which was formed in 2009, has also had five men in the top job in 16 years.
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