Chris Barrett

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Chris Barrett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If Peter V’landys ran the campaign to sell up Rosehill racecourse and replace it with housing, “the bulldozers would already be moving in”. So declared one insider aligned to the state’s racing chief on the eve of Tuesday’s members’ vote to determine the future of the western Sydney track.

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Chris Barrett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A second team will join in Supreme Court action seeking a cache of documents from the NBL and its billionaire powerbroker, Larry Kestelman, as officials warn that a mounting feud with owners risks bringing down the league.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Chris Barrett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A regional trainer involved in an altercation with a Racing NSW investigator has been disqualified from the industry for two years. Craig Roberts fronted a six-hour stewards’ inquiry over the incident at Newcastle racecourse before being found guilty and rubbed out.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Chris Barrett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Basketball Australia has been asked by the sport’s world governing body to investigate claims of conflicts of interest made about National Basketball League supremo Larry Kestelman by the American owner of competition champions the Illawarra Hawks.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Michael McGowan |Chris Barrett

By Michael McGowan and Chris Barrett May 6, 2025 — 2.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NSW taxpayers could still be paying billions of dollars in 2041 for the Minns government’s plan to buy Rosehill racecourse, and development of the historic site into 25,000 new homes may take up to 40 years to complete.