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Speech to the Masterton and Wairarapa racing clubs’ combined awards night
Masterton Cosmopolitan Club
7.15pm, 20 August

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

 

Six New Zealand thoroughbred races will offer seven-figure stakes this season, Racing Minister Winston Peters announced tonight.

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Address by Racing Minister Winston Peters to the 2008 Mercedes Thoroughbred Awards

Delivered at 7.15pm, 15 August 2008
Mystery Creek Convention Centre
Hamilton

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Racing Minister Winston Peters' address to the Annual Conference of Harness Racing Clubs 

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

New Zealand's premiere harness races will receive a stakes increase totalling $1.6 million this year, Racing Minister Winston Peters announced at the Harness Racing New Zealand annual conference to

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Applications to the Safety Development Fund for 2008/09 are now open, Racing Minister Winston Peters announced today. 

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Warren Bell, Thayne Green, and Alistair Sutherland have been reappointed to the New Zealand Racing Board’s governing body, Racing Minister Winston Peters announced today. 

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Fifteen race course projects have been given a total of $425,000 in the latest round of safety grants, Racing Minister Winston Peters announced today. 

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

 

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Twelve clubs have been granted nearly $368,800 to support racecourse safety projects, Racing Minister Winton Peters announced today.

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

The government’s new Racing Safety Development Fund is proving popular, with 16 applications lodged for the first round of funding, Racing Minister Winston Peters said today.

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Racing is an industry that can be dominated by statistics and tables,
and it is wonderful to have the story of the man who has spent most of his career at the top of those tables, expressed from a very human perspective

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Nominations are being sought for the position of independent chairperson of the Racing Safety Development Fund’s decision-making body

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

The Safety Development Fund offers $1 million in dollar-for-dollar support for projects that improve the safety and therefore the quality of racecourse facilities around New Zealand

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Liz Dawson, who has a background in sports marketing, has been appointed to the New Zealand Racing Board

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

The racing industry needs to implement recommendations contained in a Department of Labour report on track safety procedures

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

The Commissioner of Revenue's decision to permit racehorses sold for export to remain in New Zealand for up to 24 months without attracting GST is welcome news

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Racing Minister Winston Peters is seeking nominations to fill an independent member vacancy on the New Zealand Racing Board

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Auckland accountant and lawyer Michael Stiassny is to take over from Warren Larsen as chair of the New Zealand Racing Board

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Ray O'Connor has been appointed to the governing body of the New Zealand Racing Board, effective 1 December 2006.

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

The end of five-cent coins results in technical amendments to the Racing Act

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

Racing Minister Winston Peters launches NZ's first 'Greyhounds As Pets' adoption programme

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing

The legislation which will give effect to the major announcements made to the racing industry on Friday, 10 March 2006, will be submitted to parliament tomorrow by way of supplementary order papers

  • Winston Peters
  • Racing