The Brisbane Race Club's first racing manager Bart Sinclair sees his new job as being a conduit between the club's officials and the Australasian racing industry.

Sinclair will act as a racing matters consultant to the BRC after it broke with 150 years of tradition and appointed a chief executive with no racing background this week.

The new CEO Dave Whimpey has extensive knowledge about gaming and hospitality but it will be Sinclair's job to assist him in racing matters.

Sinclair is well known in Australian racing having been a sports journalist for 42 years with The Australian, Sunday Sun and The Courier Mail-Sunday Mail newspapers.

Sinclair comes from one of Australia's most famous racing families and his father, Bart senior, both rode and trained Group One winners.

"I have been going to the tracks in Brisbane and around Australiasia for 60 years so I suppose I have picked up a bit," he said.

Sinclair said part of his job was to liaise with Racing Queensland, trainers, jockeys, owners, the media and other clubs about racing matters.

He said he would be a "conduit" between racing groups and officials so matters to do with day-to-day racing - such as programming, training facilities, prizemoney etc - could be discussed in a sensible manner.