Danny Russell

Dec 19, 2024 | smh.com.au | Danny Russell

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sam Kavanagh paid the cobalt trials’ heaviest toll. No one suffered more than the young trainer, who had grown up in Adelaide, left his father’s successful operation and moved to the cut-throat world of Sydney racing to make it on his own.

Dec 17, 2024 | smh.com.au | Danny Russell

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Victoria Racing Club members have voted for an unchanged board to lead the financially stricken club into the future despite the Flemington organisation losing $70 million across the past four years.

Dec 11, 2024 | smh.com.au | Danny Russell

By Danny Russell December 12, 2024 — 11.40am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Greyhound Racing Victoria has defended its welfare record despite a 45 per cent increase in dog deaths across the state this year. The frenetic sport has lost 45 greyhounds on Victorian tracks since January compared to 31 last year.

Dec 6, 2024 | smh.com.au | Danny Russell

It was a point made on a pro punting podcast two days after the Melbourne Cup. “I think if one of us on this show had got the [$3.2 million first four] collect, I don’t think it would have made the news, and we might have got caught up in the T&Cs of a maximum payout of $500,000,” one of the pros said.

Dec 5, 2024 | smh.com.au | Danny Russell

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Victoria Racing Club has axed up to 40 jobs just three weeks before Christmas as the venue that hosts the Melbourne Cup moves to rein in years of spiralling debt. The VRC recorded a $24 million loss for the past financial year and has now lost more than $70 million across the past four years.