Minns in racing leadership scramble as V’landys condemns ‘lies’

Samantha Hutchinson and Zoe Samios

Updated Dec 1, 2023 – 6.00pm, first published at 9.55am

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The Minns government is scrambling to solve a leadership crisis in NSW’s top racing body after sensationally dumping a bill to extend the current chairman’s term rather than accept amendments which that tighten scrutiny of the body.

Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’landys was seeking urging meetings with the government on Friday to discuss “outright lies” he said helped prompt the government’s sudden backflip, which means Racing NSW chairman Russell Balding’s term will expire on December 18.

Samantha Hutchinson is the AFR's National Reporter. Most recently, she was CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Before that, she covered Victorian and NSW politics and business for The Australian, the AFR and BRW Magazine.

Zoe Samios covers wagering and the business of sport from the AFR's Sydney newsroom. She was previously the media and telecommunications reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and covered media at The Australian.