Stewards

IT has been a busy few weeks in stewards rooms around Australia, with several participants facing the respective authority bodies over a range of prohibited...

THE Special Commission's second and presumably final public hearings ended last week along predictable lines. Long and often tortured questioning concentrated on who knew what...

A READER (Kondoparinga, which is the name of an up-market country homestay spot in SA)) made some useful points about the need for industry to...

TENNIS is over for the moment with various views on the respective merits of the women's and men's finals. Personally, for once I found the...

THE recent Roy Morgan report on wagering profiles, ferreted out by colleague Kat Ernst in her recent article, represented a huge jump in knowledge for...

GREYHOUND Racing New South Wales handed down a four month suspension to NSW trainer Nancy McIntosh last week after she was found guilty of a...

GREYHOUND Racing NSW (GRNSW) has opened an inquiry into an incident which occurred in race five at Wentworth Park on Boxing Day where the wrong...

WE talked about prices and value last Tuesday but one of our readers has completely missed the point and verballed me to boot. The article,...

A FEW years ago, Tabcorp's boss (the previous one, not the current one) announced that wagering was a “mature industry” so he started branching out...

ONE of the last big debates in the ongoing string of greyhound inquiries is going to be about the value of separating integrity or steward's...

TWO New South Wales greyhound trainers will spend time behind bars for their part in the infamous live-baiting scandal which has rocked the greyhound racing...

DO you know the RSPCA balance sheet shows a total equity of $100 million, which includes cash, term deposits, a share portfolio and investment property....

PROMINENT Newcastle trainer Ron Bell has been found guilty of racing greyhound Lorna Belle with prohibited substances in its system. Bell was charged with a...

THE current spate of arguments calling for the NSW Premier to sack or stand down the chief of ICAC for improper or even illegal behaviour...

SEVERAL Queensland-based trainers faced steward inquiries last week following allegations of failing to obtain passports from Greyhounds Australasia (GA) prior to exporting their greyhounds overseas....

SUPERSTAR sprinter Fernando Bale ($1.10) bounced back from his shock defeat in last Friday's Group 1 Melbourne Cup with an emphatic victory in a heat...

THE thing with the Special Commission is that you can't be sure what it is trying to do. Every so often, the big chief –...

QUEENSLAND trainer Tony Millen has been suspended for two years after an injured dog in his care was not given immediate veterinary attention. Millen, who...

THIS report in Fairfax media is instructive. The West Indies, now near the bottom of cricket rankings, have decided to move into the 21st century...

AS THE 2015 year nears a close the industry is still smarting from a succession of horrendous events, all of which are self-inflicted in one...

THE Kelly Bravo-trained Secret Spell broke through for a deserved win at the highest level, leading all the way in Monday night's Group 1 Hume...

FOR stayers, it's that time of the year, so a quick look at last week would be useful. Nothing much happened in WA as Mandurah's...

OF course, everyone knows that jumping in front is the way to win greyhound races. But shouldn't the others be able to have a crack,...

KERRY Chalker faced the Victorian Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board (RADB) this week, faced with four charges stemming from breaches of LR 18.5 and GAR...

BRAD Hilly Billy finally broke through for his maiden Group race triumph on the mainland with a tenacious performance in Saturday night's Group 2 Bob...