
VRMA/VRC Best News & Best Feature Story Winners for 2019
BEST NEWS
Leo Schlink (Herald Sun) followed up his win last year for his series of headline articles surrounding the Aquanita doping scandal with another series of articles on the Darren Weir stable raid and subsequent disqualification bombshell. Schlink shares the VRC $1500 award award with Mark Buttler.
BEST FEATURE
Michael Lynch and Peter Ryan (The Age)O shared the VRC $1500 best feature for their in depoth coverage of the Darren Weir saga.
The judges Rhett Kirkwood and Ray Huxley announced the VRMA award winners for 2018 at the Racing Personality Of The Year luncheon at the Emerald Hotel on Monday November 18.
INGLIS BREEDING AWARD
Leo Schlink (Herald Sun) won the $1000 award for best breeding coverage in the media, announced by Peter Fitzgerald from Inglis.
Date | BEST NEWS STORY | BEST FEATURE STORY |
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2012-13 | Rod Nicholson | Patrick Bartley |
2011-12 | Patrick Bartley | Stephen Howell/Mark Harding |
2010-11 | Patrick Bartley | Adrian Dunn |
2009-10 | Adam Hamilton/Adrian Dunn | Michael Manley |
2008-09 | Adam Hamilton | Rod Nicholson |
2007-08 | Patrick Bartley | Rod Nicholson |
2006-07 | Patrick Bartley/Rod Nicholson | Patrick Bartley |
2005-06 | Tony Bourke | Adam Hamilton |
2004-05 | Michael Manley/Adam Hamilton | Patrick Bartley |
2003-04 | Patrick Bartley | Adrian Dunn |
2002-03 | Rod Nicholson | Patrick Bartley |
2001-02 | Patrick Bartley | Rod Nicholson |
2000-01 | Tony Bourke | Matthew Stewart |
1999-00 | Adrian Dunn | Shane Templeton |
1998-99 | Rod Nicholson | Andrew Eddy |
1997-98 | Rod Nicholson | Brendan Cormick |
1996-97 | Shane Templeton | Patrick Bartley |
1995-96 | Tony Bourke | Shane Templeton |
1994-95 | Brendan Cormick | David Moore |
1993-94 | Andrew Eddy | Bernie OÕBrien |
1992-93 | Tony Bourke | Andrew Eddy |
1991-92 | Tony Bourke | David Moore |
1990-91 | Bernie OÕBrien | Stephen Moran |
1989-90 | Keith Hillier | Stephen Moran |
1988-89 | Tony Meany/Tony Bourke | Adrian Dunn |
1987-88 | Tony Meany | Adrian Dunn |
1986-87 | Brian Meldrum | Ray Huxley/Shane Templeton |
1985-86 | Keith Hillier/Jack Elliott | Cathy Walker |
1984-85 | Shane Templeton | Rhett Kirkwood |
1983-84 | Rhett Kirkwood | Patrick Bartley |
1982-83 | Jack Elliott | Keith Hillier |
1981-82 | Mark Harding | Graeme Kelly |
1980-81 | Keith Hillier | Rollo Roylance |
1979-80 | Keith Hillier | Rollo Roylance |