The Australian Racing Board has doubled the number of individual owners allowed to share in the ownership of a racehorse. From next season, up to 20 owners will be permitted per horse, up from the previous maximum of 10. The change is the result of a request by the Australian [...]
A new trackside hotel to be built at Royal Randwick will give guests a view down the home straight and club members another spot to wine and dine on carnival days. The Australian Turf Club (ATC) and the NSW Government on Thursday unveiled plans for the four-star hotel complex which [...]
Additional money raised at a function to support trainer John O’Shea will be split between two racing families who are doing it tough. The families of injured jockey Kristy Banks and late trainer Pat Quinn will share the $115,000 raised above the $175,000 target. The event was staged in Sydney [...]
Brisbane Racing Club chairman Kevin Dixon has resigned to take up a position as a board member of Racing Queensland Limited. Dixon’s decision is expected to ultimately lead to him taking up the vacant role as chairman of Queensland’s governing race body from May 1. BRC board member Bill Sexton, [...]
The board of Racing Queensland Limited (RQL) is expected to put forward a transitional plan to the Queensland government this week. RQL chairman Bob Bentley said his board was due to meet on Tuesday to discuss the new Queensland government’s racing policy. However, Bentley refused to speculate on his own [...]
The Australian Turf Club has received a major boost ahead of one of its biggest meetings of the year with prestige wine and spirits group Moet Hennessy signing a five-year sponsorship deal. Darren Pearce, chief executive of the ATC, said the merger of the Sydney race clubs had made sponsorship [...]
Racing Victoria has confirmed it will adopt the same turnover-based model on rights fees as its NSW counterpart. The decision comes on the heels of the High Court verdict last month which ruled wagering operators Betfair and Sportsbet must pay a 1.5 per cent fee on turnover to Racing NSW [...]
Racing Victoria has approved a Cox Plate eve race meeting for the Moonee Valley Racing Club featuring its premier sprint, the Group One Manikato Stakes. The Manikato moves from the club’s AFL grand final eve meeting in late September to headline the program on the Friday night before the Cox [...]
Bauer, beaten just a nose by Viewed in the 2008 Melbourne Cup, will become a clerk of the course horse on metropolitan tracks. Clerk of the course Graeme Salisbury will pick him up on Friday to begin preparing him for his new career. The nine-year-old grey gelding, prepared by Luca [...]
Victorian prizemoney will rise to $160 million next season with an $18.7 million funding injection of which 63 per cent will be allocated to country meetings. The across-the-board increases to minimum prizemoney levels will take effect from August 1 with country minimums up from $12,000 to $15,000, showcase races up [...]