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Tabcorp to pay $860m for exclusive Victorian wagering licence
The ASX-listed bookmaker has kept international rivals including Sportsbet and Entain away from one of its most lucrative markets.
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- Zoe Samios
Minns in racing leadership scramble as V’landys condemns ‘lies’
The NSW government has walked away from a contentious plan to extend top racing administrator Russell Balding’s term to 14 years.
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- Samantha Hutchinson and Zoe Samios
November
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Horseracing director pushes for renewal amid NSW leadership clash
International racing heavyweight Greg Nichols has urged administrators to prioritise renewal as a NSW leadership spat divides the racing community.
- Samantha Hutchinson
NSW racing plan threatens to split Coalition party room
A growing number in the crossbench and the Coalition are hardening on the bill to extend the Racing NSW chairman Russell Balding’s term
- Samantha Hutchinson
Horse breeders threaten legal action in Racing NSW stoush
A letter to Racing Minister David Harris threatens to drag the Minns government further into a stoush dividing the top rungs of racing.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Reporters dragged into Racing NSW’s internal war
A dispute over the chairmanship of Racing NSW has descended into accusations that each side used its preferred media outlet to attack the other.
- Zoe Samios
Gai Waterhouse enters the Racing NSW fight
The decision to change laws to reappoint Racing NSW chairman Russell Balding has exposed deep rifts about the future of racing.
- Zoe Samios and Mark Di Stefano
Jockey Mark Zahra goes back-to-back on Without A Fight
Jockey Mark Zahra has won his second successive Melbourne Cup, riding Without A Fight to victory at Flemington.
- Zoe Samios and James Thomson
Cup sizzle brings out men’s shorts, rainbow colour for women
Thirty-degree heat for the Melbourne Cup led property developer Paul Franze to opt for shorts, while colour was the order of the day for women’s fashion.
- Lauren Sams
Without a Fight wins the Melbourne Cup
The Anthony and Sam Freedman stayer has streaked away with the Melbourne Cup. Follow here.
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- James Thomson
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Macquarie’s Melbourne Cup tips team asked AI a smart question
The firm’s quants turned to artificial intelligence to improve their race strike rate. There’s one thing they put to PunterGPT that investors can learn from.
- James Thomson
Hope that clean socks, luck of the Irish will deliver historic win
Gold Trip would be the first racehorse to win back-to-back Melbourne Cups since Makybe Diva in 2005 - and the first to carry more than 58 kilograms.
- Zoe Samios
Meet the investment banking legend behind the Melbourne Cup favourite
With his mullet and brash clothes, Rich Ricci is not your typical investment banker. But he could take home Australia’s most famous race.
- James Thomson
Smithbrook, Amadeus snapped up by agri fund manager Warakirri for $22m
The acquisition of the Amadeus Vineyard and the Smithbrook Estate follows Warakirri’s diversified fund buying the Josef Chromy Estate in Tasmania last year.
- Larry Schlesinger
The race that no longer stops the nation gets a shake-up
Fewer than 85,000 people are expected to attend the Melbourne Cup, but the VRC hopes a music festival and overturning a ban on shorts will keep young people interested.
- Patrick Durkin
Waterhouse and Waller vie for Victoria Derby, Golden Eagle victory
The meet at Flemington in Melbourne marks the beginning of a spring racing carnival that continues into next week with the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday.
- Zoe Samios and Patrick Durkin
‘No one thought I’d be good’: How Gai Waterhouse proved the doubters wrong
Gai Waterhouse had to defy the weight of her famous father to become a female trailblazer and legend of the track.
- Zoe Samios
October
This Alligator could deliver Gerry Harvey’s racing dream
Gerry Harvey has never won a Cox Plate. But a horse with a reptilian name and one of the country’s greatest ever trainers could change that on Saturday.
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- James Thomson
‘The fewer people who know what you’re doing, the better’
Joe McGrath spent 150 days on the road this year touring with the $600k Melbourne Cup. The key, he says, is knowing when to keep a low profile and when to wax lyrical.
- Gus McCubbing
The hottest invitation at the Cup – especially if you’re a foodie
The premier party zone at Flemington Racecourse is shaping up to be more Melbourne than ever – with a pop-up of Curtis Stone’s LA restaurant thrown in for good measure.
- Necia Wilden
