{"id":142978,"date":"2025-09-17T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142978\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:44:07","slug":"we-need-to-sit-back-and-work-out-what-the-punters-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142978\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We need to sit back and work out what the punters want\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Australian Trainers Association president Troy Corstens is taking a collegiate approach to the representative body, declaring he wants the organisation to work with rather than fighting against other factions of the racing industry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2220449158-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"Troy Corstens \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" \/>Troy Corstens is aiming to make a difference as head of the Australian Trainers&#8217; Association. (Photo: Reg Ryan\/Racing Photos via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Victorian trainer, who won the Group 1 Moir Stakes with Baraqiel earlier this month, assumed the presidency of the ATA in July having been Robbie Griffiths\u2019 understudy for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>The trainer says there was a time when the ATA, and other racing industry groups, were adversarial towards each other and, in particular, principal racing authorities including his home state\u2019s regulator Racing Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>                    This post is for our free members<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        Thanks for your interest in The Straight. It looks like you are trying to access a free members article via an in-app browser on X, Facebook or LinkedIn.&#13;<br \/>\nFor the best experience, and instant access, sign on via the Social Sign In links below. You should only need to do this once.&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>If you wish to access or create an email-based account, please provide your email below. You will receive a link to click by email which will then open in your device\u2019s native browser.<\/p>\n<p>One moment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Please check your email to confirm your subscription!<\/p>\n<p>Something went wrong. Please try again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Australian Trainers Association president Troy Corstens is taking a collegiate approach to the representative body, declaring he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-142978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}