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DEPUTY Premier and Minister for Racing, Rob Hulls, today announced former Victoria Police officer and corporate security specialist, Sal Perna, as Victoria’s inaugural Racing Integrity Commissioner.

Mr Hulls said Mr Perna was ideally suited for the role and would further strengthen probity to Victorian racing, which is widely recognised as one of the best racing industries in the world.

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SERIOUS racing fans are set for a treat this Saturday with the sport’s hottest sprinters nominated for the Group 1 Pulse Pharmacy William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley.

Boom three-year-old filly Black Caviar is joined in the entries by a star-studded cast including Nicconi, Starspangledbanner, Wanted, Headway, Shellscrape, Light Fantastic, Sniper’s Bullet and Turffontein for what shapes as a salivating 1200-metre showdown.

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TABCORP Holdings Limited has announced a normalized net profit after tax of $264 million, up 0.8 per cent for the half year to 31 December 2009.

Normalised earnings per share were 43.5 cents, down 11.9 per cent, following capital management initiatives in the previous financial year. The reported net profit after tax was $257.9 million, down 2 per cent.

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THIS Friday’s Twilight meeting at Moonee Valley will see potential superstar and boom colt We’re Gonna Rock run in the Clayton RSL Handicap scheduled to jump at 5.45pm.

In only his second career start, the Kavanagh trained We’re Gonna Rock  is Guineas bound  after his exciting debut where he trounced short-priced favourite and promising galloper Marconi.

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THE feats of unlikely Black Saturday hero Fabish, a former thoroughbred racehorse and clerk of the course, will be celebrated by the Healesville Amateur Racing Club at their picnic race meeting this Sunday, 7 February.

The equine hero will make a special appearance on the anniversary of the devastating bushfires to lead out the race named in his honour, the Fabish Open Trophy, at 2:40pm.

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THE Moonee Valley Racing Club has today changed the race meeting for this Friday 5th February from a Night meeting to a Twilight meeting.

The change in starting time has arisen from extensive cockatoo damage to cabling connecting lighting on up to half of the 60 plus lighting towers.

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VICTORIAN trainer Leon Corstens has been suspended for six months over a positive swab returned by Starspangledbanner before it won at Caulfield in August.

The RAD Board handed down its decision today after hearing a charge laid by RVL stewards against Corstens under AR 178, to which he had pleaded not guilty.

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A DAZZLING array of racing talent will come together at Caulfield on Saturday afternoon for the running of the Group 1 $400,000 Sportingbet Orr Stakes (1400m).

Making their first appearance during the 2010 Melbourne Festival of Racing are this season’s Emirates Melbourne Cup winner Shocking and BMW Caulfield Cup winner Viewed.

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ONE of the country's most respected racing writers, ROD NICHOLSON, reports in the Sun Herald in Melbourne on the looming prospect of a TVN- Sky Channel merger - with TVN having majority control, welcome news for most punters.

Here is the Nicholson report, courtesy of News Limited and Australia's leading racing paper, the Sun Herald: 'After five years of often bitter television warfare, TVN and Tabcorp's Sky Channel are discussing a merger that should benefit everyone.

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RACING Victoria Limited (RVL) stewards today concluded an inquiry into the riding tactics adopted by Michelle Payne aboard Rebel Truce at Betfair Park (Sandown Lakeside) on Saturday, 23 January, 2010.

Stewards opened and adjourned an inquiry on the day following the three-year-old’s sixth place finish in the Rancher Super VOBIS Handicap (1300m).

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