Rosehill

Champion trainer Chris Waller has led an extraordinary rebuke of the plans to develop and sell off Rosehill racecourse at a members' forum meeting on Tuesday.

Rosehill is a racecourse full of fond memories for Brian Mayfield-Smith and it’s hardly a surprise a connection to some of the stars he trained remains relevant almost four decades on.

Selling off Rosehill racecourse to property developers might not be the only era to end in Sydney racing.

A ‘once-in-a-century’ opportunity to inject nearly $5 billion of funds into the future of the racing industry proved irresistible to the Australian Turf Club, even though it means the closure of Rosehill racecourse after 150 years.

In five or so years, Rosehill Racecourse will be no more with this week’s announcement that the New South Wales government is buying the site for redevelopment.

The proposed closure and sell off of Rosehill racecourse has created plenty of queries and The Straight has gone through the key questions it has raised and, where possible, the key answers to those questions.

Key players have their say on proposed loss of Rosehill racecourse.