Tag Archives: RAY THOMAS
PETER V’LANDYS AND HORSE RACING’S OWN GAME OF THRONES
By Hans Ebert @hanseberthk It’s taken a long and winding whirlybird route to get to where it is now. From being a copy of America’s Pegasus race, and through numerous changes that continue today, Peter V’landys, the Racing NSW supremo, … Continue reading
THE BIBS AND BOBS AND SPINNING OUTTA CONTROL ISSUE
By Keyser Soze in Australia MORE SYCOPHANTIC PROPAGANDA ON NSW RACING He’s NSW racing’s “reliable man”. The NSW limited rag – the Daily Smellygraph’s Racing Editor Ray Thomas, always ready and willing to hit the keyboard and talk up and … Continue reading
THE GAME OF THRONES ISSUE
VICTORIANS PREPARE FOR WAR The battle lines have been well and truly drawn in the media rights war with a clear demarcation between the protagonists – Racing Victoria and its preferred partner, the powerful media conglomerate Seven West Media and … Continue reading
KABOOM! EMAIL OF THE YEAR SO FAR!
Wow – Messara – announced via Ray Thomas of course, has decided that improving returns to owners and maintaining training tracks (at all) may improve things in Racing in NSW. A Eureka moment obviously…. that is and has been reality … Continue reading
BALANCE SHEETS, MENTAL IMBALANCE AND BALANCING ACTS
RACING NSW BALANCE SHEET AVOIDS SCRUTINY – AGAIN. It took the Financial Review, a non mainstream Fairfax tabloid, to run the ruler over Racing NSW’s Annual report and report what its own sister newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald and the … Continue reading
THE “ANGER MANAGEMENT” ISSUE
HONG KONG’S HOME OFFICE POLICY LETS RACING DOWN BADLY Hong Kong’s leading racing journalist Alan Aitken’s “On The Rails” column in the South China Morning Post last week highlighted a striking, and in these days, anti-competitive and unacceptable anomaly facing … Continue reading