Arranged from over your side of the river I hear Dan. Oh gosh not another group forming is there?

So will you be going to the meeting?

look at what the north side has put up with over the years but
they keep going
maybe we should put somebody in charge that is
going to take us ahead not just in there back yard

LNP POLICY
Racing
CURRENT OVERVIEW
Three private companies (control bodies) control racingQueensland Racing Ltd, Queensland Harness
Racing Ltd, and Greyhounds Queensland Ltd.
The responsibility of the control bodies in managing their code of racing includes the allocation of race dates; licencing of animals, clubs, participants and venues for racing; distributing monies to licensed clubs for prize money; and allocating funds for venue development and other infrastructure relevant to the code of racing.
The Government licences control bodies. They have a system of internal renewal (election by shareholders) and licence renewal (by government). The Liberal National Party believes control bodies should be based on a principle of independence; good corporate governance; fair to all stakeholders; and provide each code with opportunities for growth and development.
The LNP also believes the Office of Racing, whilst overseeing integrity and animal welfare issues,should also be of strong assistance where required to the three codes and their control bodies.
FUNDING BOOST
The LNP recognises the importance of the three codes of Racing to the economic, employment and social benefit of all Queensland.
A LNP Government will boost the three codes of Racing with an additional annual grant of $5.61 million,to be taken from wagering taxes received by Government. This money will be provided to the three control bodies for the following specific purposes:
◊ City Racing$1 million
◊ Regional Racing$1.5 million ($200,000 per TAB clubGold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Rockhampton, Mackay and Townsville, and $100,000 for non-TAB club Cairns)
◊ Country Racing$1.36 million
Up to 20 additional non-strategic country race meetings per year throughout Queensland, including the reinstatement of Kilcoy (3), Esk (3), and Bell (1) race meetings
Return of $3,000 administration fee to non-strategic country race meetings
◊ QTIS boost$500,000 additional funding spread over country, regional & city racing to add to existing QTIS scheme
◊ Training & recruitment of Jockeys, Track Work Riders & Stable hands, and promotion of racing$250,000
◊ Harness Racing$500,000
◊ Greyhound Racing$500,000
We will ensure that any fees received from Race Fields Legislation covering wagering operators or interstate and international product sales, will remain with each of the codes.

CONTROL BODY CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The LNP believes that control bodies should be independent and statutory.
The selection and renewal process should be of the utmost independence and integrity in order to provide each code with professional and dynamic leadership.
LNP policy is that each control body will operate as a Board for the best interests of its code and will determine policies and procedures. These policies and procedures will be carried out separately by the CEO and staff of the control body.

The control bodies will be required to provide an annual report to the Parliament each year.
Racing Control Bodymaximum number should be 7. Selection process must ensure that experience in and knowledge of city, regional and country racing exists within the membership of the control body. The selection process and guidelines will also ensure experience in business, finance, law, event management, and a strong understanding of the product fees that underpin the three codes.
Harness & Greyhound Racing Control Bodiesmaximum number should be 5, and the selection process and guidelines will ensure experience in racing, business, finance, law, event management,and a strong understanding of the product fees that underpin the three codes.
INDUSTRY CONSULTATION
Each control body will be required to provide the Racing Minister with an annual program of formal consultation with its industry stakeholders.
The minimum requirement will be an annual industry conference and one other meeting of the control body with stakeholder representatives.
1. THOROUGHBRED RACING
Recognising the importance of racing
POLICY The LNP recognises the vital
economic and social contributions to the state
made by the racing industry, and our rebuilding
blueprint for the future is designed to ensure
that all stakeholders and participants are treated
fairly. The restructured control body will better
reflect industry needs.
INDUSTRY GOVERNANCE The LNP recognises the importance of the independence of Queensland Racing Board directors, and will expand control body numbers to ensure independent directors with sound experience in city, regional and country racing.
COUNTRY NON-TAB RACING The sustainability of country racing will be protected by a legislated Thoroughbred Racing Intra-code Agreement (TRIA) designed to provide greater certainty over the level of country race funding long term.
A Country Racing Council (CRC) will represent all non-TAB racing and undertake specific tasks including the recommendations of race dates and allocation of prize money distributions to Clubs.
The legislation will also ensure that Country Racing is entitled to reasonable and appropriate prize
money and race day services.
The CRC will consist of delegates representing each regional association.
INDUSTRY FUNDING Prize money and industry capital funding will be significantly boosted by a
LNP initiative to top-up existing Product and Program Agreements and Race Fields Agreements by
$5.61 million per year ($4.61 million to thoroughbred racing, $500,000 harness racing, $500,000
greyhound racing).
Vision
The LNP recognises the importance of the Racing Industry throughout Queensland for its significant
contribution to the economy of the State, for the provision of business and employment opportunities,
and for its role in the social life of many cities and communities.
The Racing Industry needs to be competitive, accountable, and open in all matters and LNP policy
will:
♦ Build confidence in a future sustainable state-wide racing industry by the formation of a
statutory control body to manage racing for all stakeholders:
◊ This control body, the Queensland Racing Board, will have directors with sound
experience in city, regional and country racing.
◊ All seven directors must be independent of club committees and direct sectional interests
and are to be appointed by an independent panel.
♦ Rebuild and protect country non-TAB racing through a legislated Thoroughbred Racing Intracode
Agreement, and to empower a specific purpose Country Racing Council to recommend
race dates and allocations of prize money from the resources provided by such Agreement.
♦ Ensure that legislative support (ie Racing & Betting Act) is regularly updated to reflect the needs
of the industry.
Noel Pascoe, photo
Racing for all Queenslanders
The Queensland Racing Industry is facing solid competition from interstate racing industries whose
prize money and capital works funding levels are more lucrative, and also from other professional
sports.
Over time many Queensland regional areas have had access to racing on a weekly basis all but
removed due to transport costs, plus the current requirement to travel many hundreds of kilometres to
the nearest race meeting. The ranks of country owners, trainers, jockeys, strappers and bookmakers
have been decimated as a result.
As a matter of priority the LNP will inject sufficient new funding from the $5.61 million package to rebuild
the industry state-wide by:
♦ Providing increased funding through the provisions of the Thoroughbred Racing Intra-code
Agreement to non-TAB and viable country race clubs so that the industry in regional areas is
sustainable through the creation of greater opportunities for owners, trainers, jockeys etc, in turn
providing flow-on benefits to provincial TAB meetings in terms of horse numbers, licensees, and
participants.
♦ Allowing the Queensland Racing Board to maximise all TAB racing opportunities, thereby
increasing industry revenue.
♦ Providing a financial buffer against any downturn in the Product and Program Fee received by
the industry.
♦ Minimising the costs of racing on racehorse owners and race clubs.
♦ Protecting the integrity of the industry.
♦ Providing greater incentives to the purchasers of Queensland bred yearlings.
♦ Providing a scheme to assist in the training of jockeys, track work riders and stable hands.
♦ The promotion of racing.
If racing were just an industry, it would be on the finance pages. It would have the warmth of
merchant banking and the literary traditions of insurance. All that can make racing beautiful, all
that ever elevates it above dull commerce, is the horse. Take away the horse and you have no hero,
no theatre. You are left with a zombie inserting a gambling dollar into a machine.
Les Carlyon, True Grit: Tales from a decade on the turf
Specific Initiatives
Reinstatement of country race meetings & reallocation of administration fee
The LNP has pledged to reinstate up to 20 non-strategic country race meetings, and fund the
reallocation of the $3,000 administration fee to non-strategic country race meetings.
This would include our recent promise to reinstate meetings at Kilcoy (3), Esk (3) and Bell (1), all of
which lost these meetings in the December 2008 cuts to country racing.
These meetings would be reinstated at no cost to other strategic or non-strategic clubs.
Country racing would be a priority for a LNP Government. It is the nursery of the racing industry.
Cost to Budget $1.36 million per year
Brisbane Racing Development
Recently there was an exciting and historic amalgamation of the two former capital city clubs to form
the Brisbane Racing Club.
A LNP Government would support the BRCs planned redevelopment of both Eagle Farm and
Doomben into a modern racing precinct, and would provide $1 million per year to assist with the timely
planning, design and administration of this project.
As part of this, we would work with State Government departments and the Brisbane City Council to
expedite planning and development for the City Racing Precinct.
These funds will be available to the BRC on an annual basis for ongoing racecourse development or
the enhancement of prizemoney at the club.
Cost to Budget $1m per year
Regional Racing
Regional TAB race clubs will receive $200,000 per year for enhanced prizemoney / increased races at
their club.
The non-TAB club of Cairns (including the annual Amateurs TAB meeting) will receive $100,000
per year to assist with planned redevelopment of the track and enhancement of the clubs racing
operations.
Cost to Budget $1.5m per year
Queensland Thoroughbred Investment Scheme (QTIS)
Additional funding spread over country, regional and city racing to provide additional incentives for the
purchase of Queensland bred thoroughbreds.
This money could, for example, provide additional bonuses to 100 country races at $1,000 each, 100
regional races at $2,000 each, and 50 city races at $4,000 each.
However the determination of this new QTIS money will be done by the control board.
The LNP will continue to support QTIS as an effective means of increasing interest in, and demand for
Queensland bred racehorses, thus enhancing the returns for breeders/vendors and racehorse owners.
Our policy recognises that the Scheme has an important role to play in the positive development of
the Queensland thoroughbred breeding and racing industries and should be a contributing factor in
assisting breeders to continue to upgrade their bloodstock with high quality mares and stallions.
2. HARNESS RACING
The LNP will support the growth and development
of Harness Racing by ensuring an independent,
professional and talented control body.
The LNP recognises the crucial role played by
Albion Park as the headquarters of Harness Racing.
We will work with the Albion Park Trust to facilitate
the demolition of the closed grandstand, which will
cost an estimated $4 million.
The LNP in government will work with both Harness
Racing and Greyhound Racing to assist with
planning and approvals involving State Government
departments and the Brisbane City Council to ensure the smooth and timely
redevelopment of Albion Park.
A LNP Government will provide $0.5 million per year to Harness Racing through their control body for
capital works at Albion Park or other venues, or for the further development of Harness Racing.
On the basis that the new grandstand at Albion Park can be funded by the sale of excess land, this $0.5
million per year should assist the harness racing industry in its share of the demolition costs of the old
stand. In the future this annual grant of $0.5 million would be available for ongoing development of
Albion Park, any other harness racing facility, or for enhanced prizemoney of the harness racing
industry.
We would also work closely with the Harness Racing control body to ensure the long term future of
Harness Racing in the Gold Coast area due to the time limited availability of the Parklands facility.
All proceeds of Race Fields Legislation covering wagering operators or interstate and international
product sales achieved by the Harness control body through Product Co will remain with the code.
The LNP is supportive of the development or expansion of Harness Racing in regional areas of
Queensland.
Noel Pascoe, photo
3. GREYHOUND
RACING
The LNP will support the growth and
development of Greyhound Racing by
ensuring an independent, professional
and talented control body.
The LNP will support Greyhound
Racing, as a partner in the Albion Park
Trust, to facilitate the demolition of the closed grandstand at Albion Park, which will cost an estimated
$4 million.
The LNP in government will work with both Greyhound Racing and Harness Racing to assist with
planning and approvals involving State Government departments and the Brisbane City Council to
ensure the smooth and timely redevelopment of Albion Park.
A LNP Government will also provide $0.5 million per year to Greyhound Racing through their control
body for capital works at Albion Park or other tracks.
On the basis that the new grandstand at Albion Park can be funded by the sale of excess land, this
$0.5 million per year should assist the greyhound industry in its share of the demolition costs of the
old stand.
In the future this annual grant of $0.5 million would be available for ongoing development of Albion Park
or any alternate additional track, as well as for regional greyhound racing.
We recognise the extremely difficult position Greyhound Racing has been put in by the loss of the
outstanding facility at Parklands Gold Coast.
The LNP will make available the $10 million compensation paid to the industry for the loss of the
Parklands track for the development of an alternate site.
These developments would mean that greyhound racing could eventually take place at three strategic
sites of Albion Park, Ipswich, and an alternate site.
All proceeds of Race Fields Legislation covering wagering operators or interstate and international
product sales achieved by the Greyhound control body through Product Co will remain with the code.
The LNP is supportive of the development or expansion of Greyhound Racing in regional areas of
Queensland at Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton and Bundaberg. The LNP would require a
part of the annual $0.5 million grant to be used for this purpose.
CP Images, photo

Share a complex with the trots!!! Why on earth would we do that when we can have our own stand alone complex that we own?

Would be good to hear any feedback from anyone that did attend.

Wasnt there also a owners & trainers meeting at Capalaba a few weeks back, in which Paul Felgate was invited to speak at?
Anyone there to hear what he had to say?