VRMA/VRC Best News & Best Feature Story Winners for 2020

BEST NEWS 

Leo Schlink of The Herald Sun for his story revealing for the first time how police planted surveillance devices into Darren Weir’s stables, by using other police posing as plumbers, electricians and brickies to distract attention away from them.

 Best Feature:

Damien Ractliffe of The Age for his interview with Emma Goring, widow of Mark Goring, about the ever-present dangers faced by jockeys in their vocation. 

The judges Rhett Kirkwood and Ray Huxley announced the VRMA award winners for 2020 at the Racing Personality Of The Year luncheon at the Emerald Hotel on Monday February 1, 2021.

INGLIS BREEDING AWARD

Michael Felgate  (RSN) won the $1000 award for best breeding coverage in the media, announced by Narelle Stocker from Inglis.