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David Aldred (Born in Parramatta, New South Wales, 7 January 1959). One of Australia's current longest serving horse and greyhound racing administrators. Since 1980, David has worked continuously in the racing industry managing thoroughbred, standardbred and greyhound racing across Australian states and overseas horse racing in British Columbia, Western Canada. He has also concurrently, over a number of years, worked in the horse racing and sports media and a magazine editor; sports radio station general manager, television sports presenter, thoroughbred, standardbred and greyhound race caller and rugby league radio commentator. David has represented the horse racing industry and media on several boards as a director both nationally and internationally. In 2006 he was the Chief Executive Officer for the richest Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship ever staged with more than $2.5M prizemoney including a $1.5M Inter Dominion Pacing Grand Final staged in Hobart, Tasmania in 2006. He has also been the Chief Executive Officer for the Northern Territory (Australia) thoroughbred racing industry in Darwin (2000 - 2003); the Chief Executive Officer Harness Racing SA in Adelaide, the Executive Director for Standardbred Racing & Breeding in British Columbia (Canada), the General Manager for thoroughbred racing with the Sunshine Coast Turf Club , Queensland and for greyhound tracks and infrastructure with Greyhound Racing New South Wales. As a commentator and journalist David has covered several Melbourne Cups and most major thoroughbred and harness races in Australia and North America. In the late 1980'she was a National Rugby League commentator for Radio 2KA, western Sydney, calling all Penrith Rugby League National Rugby League (NRL) games as well as State of Origin and a National Rugby League (NRL) Grand Final in 1988. The recipient of numerous awards for media and management, David was named the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) Professional Manager of the Year (Sunshine Coast - Queensland) in 1999.