Are we happy not to be racing on a Monday?

Serious question... Should 5 or 6 meetings per week be the new norm?

We don't seem to moan too much these days when meetings are lost?

Bob when the alternative is Graveville - More than happy not to race and have full international coverage.

I had a nice family day. Swimming and playing board games instead. It's nice to have a day off racing.

Just shows how times have changed , we where sick for racing

......and then sick racing finally is the cure.....:S

In all regions nothing has recovered pre covid

Prize money
pools
field sizes
crowds

Everything is still smaller than before and we have trainers charging 17k basic and vets charging more and horses running like coos

Good luck with your runners in CT

Bob Brogan wrote:

In all regions nothing has recovered pre covid

Prize money
pools
field sizes
crowds

Everything is still smaller than before and we have trainers charging 17k basic and vets charging more and horses running like coos

the first horse i raced locally cost only 17k and i think training fees were about 2.5k in a very small yard - he won i think third start and the maiden stakes were not that far behind current stakes - i think maybe 70k that was over 10 years ago - impossible to own now unless you have f...k you money.... i know how much a trip to the vet costs for my dogs so I can only imagine that racket being out of control too - it is cheaper for me to see a medical specialist for myself than to take my dog to the vet - I would pay less taking my dog to the local GP than the vet...

This is what happens if there is little or no belief in the product you are selling and no willingness to give new ideas a chance. A lack of belief soon turns into the new reality and before long it becomes a tough salvage.

Unless the thinking on racing and in particular the important role of the tote in driving stakes is accepted and expanded on the sport individually will have no future.

The only way back for racing is to promote tote racing through a range of modern exotics that is built for player satisfaction and winnability under all of racing's varying conditions that include strings of formless results and a total lack of transparency on runner ability and fitness.

Everyone, including bookmakers should be promoting racing to grow the cake but in the final analysis the tote needs to perform at a much higher level as the core funding mechanism for stakes and with the means to expand racing to a much bigger audience through the benefit of the pool model.

Old, tired thinking and a lack of ideas make the tote a lame duck with a limited future.

Horseracing ethos eats any strategy for breakfast.


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