RACING Kruger lays out plan
Yesterday’s UBET dividends
NEW Racing Victoria chairman Brian Kruger said they would consider running a race along the lines of Sydney’s The Everest in the future.
Kruger said if such a race could add value to racing in Victoria “then we’ll look at it”.
Kruger also said despite hearing how successful Racing NSW was, RV was in front of it on all the numbers he looked at.
“Whether it’s prizemoney, whether it’s attendance, whether it’s ownership, whether it’s the number of people engaging or viewing the sport or starters per race, we’re on very solid ground,” Kruger said.
He expressed disappointment in Racing NSW’s decision to run an advertisement in The Australian on Melbourne Cup Day saying The Everest was Australia’s greatest race.
“I thought it was a sad reflection on Racing NSW to choose to promote their race by attempting to denigrate the Melbourne Cup. It’s certainly not something we’d do,” he said on RSN yesterday.
Kruger said when he next saw his Racing NSW counterpart Peter V’landys he would convey his thoughts.
Kruger said he was going to discuss with the integrity department whether they needed more resources for the Lovani inquiry which was going “to take months and not a few weeks to complete” but didn’t want it to drag on.
Kruger said he was “extremely confident” that no RV employee had leaked information about who had been interviewed by stewards.
He also defended his chief executive Giles Thompson stating that he had given their integrity department full support and last year RV spent $ 8 million in this area which was more than another racing or sporting organisation. he