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Bookmaker Winton Veall tried his hand at cabaret singing.

A punter took legal action after losing $400,000 in two hours. He now operates his own gambling firm

A string of online bookmaker sites run by the same people have come in for criticism for their terms and conditions.

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Trainer John O’Shea will have promising three-year-old Strombus racing at Kembla on Tuesday.

Berry and O’Shea tell inquiry calls during ban were welfare checks

Jockey Tommy Berry and disqualified trainer John O’Shea have denied any wrongdoing during a stewards’ inquiry into potential breaches of the trainer’s ban.

  • Craig Kerry
John O’Shea.

Racing NSW investigating trainer John O’Shea over conduct while disqualified

Racing NSW investigators are looking into the conduct of John O’Shea while he serves a four-month disqualification regarding concerns over a race at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

  • Craig Kerry
Patrick Payne is facing charges of formestane presentation.

How a mysterious breast cancer drug found in horses could lead to ‘Russian roulette’ at the races

The racing industry has been accused of failing trainers in the breast cancer drug cases following the emergence of bombshell new research.

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Symon Wilde is one of five trainers fined for formestane presentation.

Research arrives a day late for horse trainers fined over banned substance

Trainers from five stables were fined thousands of dollars for breaching prohibited substance rules. New research might yet prove their innocence.

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Amer Abdulaziz Salman was a big buyer at this 2021 Magic Millions racehorse sale.

Horse owner fined $10k for claiming he’d never met the man who’d been married to his sister for 20 years

Businessman Nader AlaAli has been found guilty of giving misleading evidence in a racing case linked to a New York Ponzi scheme.

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Racing Victoria’s integrity chief Jamie Stier.

‘It should have been picked up’: Racing integrity department under the pump for failed vet test

Having to sack a key appointment after just one day has left an embarrassed Racing Victoria searching for answers.

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Vet Dr Glenn Robertson-Smith.

The late-night phone calls that ended vet’s Racing Victoria job

The man who lasted one day as Racing Victoria’s new chief vet faced Melbourne Magistrate’s Court nine years ago.

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Race night at The Q.

Welfare files kept secret as toll rises at greyhound ‘death factory’

QRIC has cited the sheer volume of material to refuse a request for safety records at The Q, as data reveals the facility’s death toll has climbed to 32.

  • Cameron Atfield
Racing NSW boss Peter V’landys during a tense hearing at the Rosehill Inquiry in 2024.

Racing NSW yet to complete ‘significantly delayed’ Covid-era stimulus projects

A damning report from the NSW auditor-general into a grant program established under the former Coalition government, Racing for the Regions, had been beset by administrative failures by the Office of Racing.

  • Michael McGowan