Melbourne Spring Programmes Adjusted

Racing Victoria has announced a change of dates it says will provide a smoother build-up for this year’s Cox Plate contenders. The Group I Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) and Underwood Stakes (1800m) were run a week apart last year but the Melbourne Racing Club and RV agreed to move the Underwood Stakes back a week…

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Pope Aims To Take Out The Undercard

The Group 3 Strickland Stakes (2000m) takes top billing at Belmont on Saturday but a worthy undercard will be a hot edition of the Westspeed 3YO Handicap (1300m). It’s attracted a cracking line up including outstanding last-start winners, Bourne Supremacy and Flying Roar as well as the return of talented gelding, Outlaw Pete. The son…

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New Wage Rates

The Fair Work Commission has advised that a decision issued by the Minimum Wage Panel recently granted all employees (e.g. stablehands) a pay rise effective 1 JULY 2015.  The Australian Trainers’ Association (ATA) has mailed the following information to ATA Members which you should receive shortly. Included in the mailer referred to above, ATA Members…

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Qld Boss Issued Show Cause Notice

Racing Queensland’s top integrity man Wade Birch has to fight to retain his job after he received a show-cause notice from the new administration. The Queensland Government sacked RQ’s board early this month in the wake of the live baiting furore that erupted in greyhound racing following an ABC investigation into the illegal process of…

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