Oh come on boys Emma’s the trainer, and Clayton’s just another bloke trying to steal a woman’s thunder!!
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Oh come on boys Emma’s the trainer, and Clayton’s just another bloke trying to steal a woman’s thunder!!
All men are b@$+@£#$
Empires switch to all frozen semen stallion roster confirmed and pricing released. No change really for Captaintreacherous and SBSW who are booked out but I think breeders will vote with their feet for Betting Line (third season always difficult anyway) Heston Blue Chip and Well Said as pricing and incentives do not appear very favourable to breeders for the extra costs and risk involved with frozen semen.
Should be a “win” for studs providing fresh semen and better opportunities for locally bred sires ( particularly if HRV begin to support them as other states do) and an incentive for others to source frozen semen sires at better terms then offered by Empire.
Conspiracy Theory: provide no mares races in order to force them into the breeding barn to improve horse numbers
Implausibe, I know, as it results in a -1 to the horse population and only turns positive if and when they finally produce 2 racing progeny :confused:
One big problem with that Conspiracy Theory is that the board doesn't seem to want people to breed horses. They are giving very little incentive to breeders.
My theory is the TAB and Labor government want Harness racing to die. TAB has plenty of racing and dog races, they don't need Harness racing with long races and false starts.
Agree there’s not much incentive coming from HRV to breed. You might be right but does the Vic government really want to lose a $400m plus industry based predominantly in regional Victoria or is the message just not getting through to the right people in government? Tab may have plenty of gallops and dogs races but they don’t actually have enough to fill every minute of their wall to wall business model, so they do still need harness racing.
TAB could benefit from longer races if they activate their Betting Exchange license