Harness racing
New Zealand just banned greyhound racing. In Victoria, the number of deaths is up
The Victorian greyhound industry pours $24 million a year into integrity and welfare programs. Is it doing enough?
- Danny Russell
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Urine sample match triggers trots drug-testing scandal
Two up-and-coming Sydney drivers provided samples to stewards at a race meeting in Goulburn. DNA analysis showed the urine in both was from the same person.
- Chris Barrett
A $90m land offer could save harness racing. Instead, it is gathering dust
The state government has asked Harness Racing Victoria to hand over its Melton land in exchange for wiping out its debt. But now the industry has found out the land’s true value.
- Danny Russell
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The positive swab, the trainer and his 12 mobile phones: A fight for racing’s integrity
Aaron Goadsby has refused to comply with an order from NSW stewards to hand over his devices for an investigation and is taking his battle to the Supreme Court.
- Chris Barrett
‘Losing millions a year’: The $610 million racing code on the precipice
Five years ago, Victoria was considered the best harness racing precinct in Australasia. Now it is facing an ‘unprecedented crisis’.
- Danny Russell
‘Monumental failure’: How a racing code lost its $100m nest egg
Many believed harness racing in Victoria would survive because the industry owned a valuable parcel of suburban land. Then they learnt how much money the governing body had borrowed.
- Danny Russell
Albion Park set for major redevelopment after getting out of the Games
Albion Park was going to have an Olympic stadium, then an indoor sport centre, but will at least keep its racetrack under a planned redevelopment of the inner-city site.
- Sean Parnell
An absolute certainty: Hilly’s lonely trot to victory in Leeton harness walk-over
Hilly had no opposition at Leeton on Friday after the other eight runners in the field were scratched in the wake of a bombshell report into Tasmanian harness racing.
- Chris Roots
‘Just another way to get beaten’: Certain victory grinds to sliding halt
Champion driver Chris Alford found a novel way to get beaten as a snapped gig sent him from winning to sliding along the track at a Maryborough harness meeting on Monday.
- Chris Roots
Encipher shocks the world in the Eureka
The only mare in the $2.1 million race won the Eureka at Menangle as the $26 outsider charged past and away from odds-on favourite Leap To Fame.
- Chris Roots
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