Victoria’s Racing Integrity Commissioner, Sal Perna, has taken the extraordinary step of naming a controversial jockey and detailing investigations about him in the organisation’s annual report, writes Aneeka Simonis, a Swinburne University student.
Racing victoria
The Cup carnival ends, the racing wars continue …
The Melbourne Cup Carnival ended on a high on Saturday with a record crowd of over 80,000 attending the Emirates Stakes Day. But the racing industry will not slip from the headlines thanks to an almost endless array of divisions that remain unresolved, writes Jeff Wall.
Racing industry politics immune to horse flu
At a time of great turmoil thanks to equine influenza, the Australian racing has stayed true to it roots and continued giving political in-fighting pride of place in the national debate, writes Jeff Wall.
