ON the eve of the Melbourne Cup Carnival, the Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey has had his front door shot six times from what is believed to be a targeted attack from a semi-automatic rifle in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs.

Bailey and his family were out the back of the house at the time and were not injured with police now investigating. Bailey faced the press the following day vowing to continue the work the Racing Victoria stewards.

“I was pretty angry. There’s no need for that - it’s below the belt. It’s a job we’re in and we’ve had similar incidents over the years. We’re accustomed to it now,” said Bailey who took over as Chief Steward in 2008 following the retirement of Des Gleeson.

“There are 900 trainers in Victoria, a lot of people are relying on us to make sure the place is run on a level playing field and we’ll keep doing that. I’m not going to walk away from that. The show must go on.”

Bailey and his family have been moved to temporary accommodation as news also emerged that Racing Victoria’s head of integrity Dayle Brown reported a security threat on October 18th after he witnessed someone he described as ‘a bikie’ lurking at the front of his house that afternoon.