Industry News

• Corey Brown fined for modified safety vest

  High-profile jockey Corey Brown is the latest to be fined after being caught with a modified safety vest.

   
• Perth jockey fined over racing scam

  A Perth jockey who allowed his bank account to be used by his best friend in a scam to siphon more than $11,000 from Racing and Wagering WA has been fined $3000.

   
• Moonee Valley racecourse to have facelift

  Reconstruction of the famous Cox Plate course is set to begin in 2016 as part of a multi-million dollar redevelopment of the Moonee Valley precinct.

   
• New Zealand apprentice fined over illegal vest

  Apprentice Daniel Stackhouse, on loan to leading trainer Peter Moody, was among four riders fined $1000 for being in possession of a modified safety vest at the weekend.

   
• New Zealand racing administrator resigns

  The chief executive of the partnership that controls six of the main racing clubs in New Zealand’s lower North Island has resigned after less than two years in the job.

   
• Apprentice fined for modified safety vest

  Just a week after stewards found several modified safety vests in the jockeys’ room at Rosehill, Taylor Lovelock-Wiggins has been fined for going to the scales with the same equipment.

   
• Melbourne Racing Club announces new feature race

  The Melbourne Racing Club has announced the introduction from 2012 of a lucrative new feature race for three-year-olds on Caulfield Guineas day.

   
• Bonus to attract overseas sprint winners

  The Victoria Racing Club has announced a huge financial incentive to overseas Global Sprint Challenge winners to race in this year’s Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington.

   
• Bendigo to host premier Saturday meeting

  Bendigo has been granted a premier stand alone Saturday meeting for three years with the first to be held in March next year.

   
• Victoria to stay with gross revenue model

  Victorian racing authorities have rejected the turnover model used by Racing NSW to charge wagering operators and will stay with its preferred method of charging based on a percentage of gross revenue.

   
• Racing Victoria to target overseas horses

  Racing Victoria’s recruiter Leigh Jordon leaves for Asia on Sunday to try to attract horses to the Melbourne spring carnival.

   
• Gold Coast Turf Club chairman banned

  Gold Coast Turf club chairman Andrew Eggleston has been banned for two months following a Racing Queensland Limited inquiry into allegations of “unseemly behaviour”.

   
• Stephen Fletcher disqualified over betting scandal

  Professional punter Stephen Fletcher has been disqualified over his involvement in a Brisbane racing scandal.

   
• Brian Fletcher confident about Hawkesbury racing

  Brian Fletcher has no concerns about the Hawkesbury meeting going ahead on Saturday despite Sydney’s wet weather this week.

   
• Ben Melham outed for 11 meetings

  The Lee Freedman stable will have to find a new rider for promising two-year-old Spatha at Caulfield on Saturday after Ben Melham was suspended for careless riding.

   
• Shane Scriven granted stay of proceedings

  Shane Scriven has been granted a stay of proceedings against a five-month suspension for stealing a whip from a rival rider in an Ipswich race earlier this month.

   
• Shane Scriven outed for five months

  Veteran Queensland jockey Shane Scriven has been handed a career-threatening five-month ban for stealing an apprentice’s whip during a race at Ipswich last week.

   
• PAtinack Farm to match it with Darley

  Patinack Farm will match Darley for numbers in a bid to thwart the rival breeding and racing operation’s bid for the Sydney two-year-old triple crown.

   
• Whip incident inquiry to resume Thursday

  An inquiry into leading jockey Shane Scriven’s use of another rider’s whip in a provincial Queensland race will resume on Thursday.

   
• Tinkler spends big at Inglis broodmare sale

  Nathan Tinkler’s sporting shopping list for the week hasn’t stopped with a rugby league supercoach.