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Thread: IDEAS on how we can improve Harness Racing

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    Still not up

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    I think the Melton – Country tracks combo Victoria have used during the lockdown should be the blueprint for the future
    By that I mean, splitting the Metro prizemoney races between Friday and Saturday and between Melton and the big Regional tracks.
    It gives followers 2 excellent meets to follow in 2 popular timeslots. They need to be the evening time slots (Mildura Friday night doesn’t really cut if for most)

    Of course we have the Big country cups already and there will be some big nights of all Metro for Melton but for the majority of the weekends I think we should split the metro races between Melton and Major Regional – Friday and Saturday
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    Looks like the board could have some inside knowledge about the curfew being lifted or put back further !
    Don't die wondering !

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    The Melbourne curfew is now 9pm not that we had to follow it as drivers and trainers are going to work
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    One of the reasons we don't rank with the gallops is our performance
    It needs to be best practice every time - I cannot understand why there isn't someone responsible to see that it is

    Take todays Vic Cup barrier draw on Sky
    Jason and Brittany are good performers but that was about it
    The replays intro was poor quality video (even the recent ones)
    I can just picture the great video the French would produce

    If you are going to do ball and barrel barrier draws in future
    get some large balls with black on yellow (or colour coded to match the race numbers)
    There should have been a list of the field on display
    and of course we should be able get an evening time slot even if it is 2 chunks of 10mins
    If Sky won't come to the party, do it on TrotsVision (good to promote our own channel) and just give Sky a replay

    I won't accept Covid as an excuse
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    Somehow I receive emails like this from the gallops

    We should be doing something similar
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    Following on from the above, Do we care about getting people to the trots?
    I left Horsham early last meet because it was too l-o-n-g between races
    I would go to Maryborough on Thursday (despite it being 1˝hrs each way) but once again we have plenty of 40min gaps (even a 43min)
    Imagine going to a concert and the band play one song and then take a 40 minute break - that is what we are offering attendees
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    We have debated Drivers Colours on the forum before and they are in the news again

    http://www.harness.org.au/media-room...?news_id=47478

    http://www.harness.org.au/media-room...?news_id=47457

    Not going to debate it again but have to say, shouldn't the colours be clearly identifiable (without binocs) even when in the back straight - only a couple of those pictured stand out IMO
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    Maybe give them greyhounds colours.

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    I would like to throw up an idea on how to make Harness Racing fairer and potentially generate some new interest by doing something different.
    I put the idea in a web-page to make it easier to explain.
    http://pjdata.com.au/idea/
    Home of PJ Harness Analyser - http://pjdata.com.au/

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