Industry Indicators - Good, Bad & Ugly

[arlington]

Diminishing Breeders Crown entrants, a lot of people have been saying over the last couple of years they won't be paying up for it. Some due to stable dominance as well as the "if you haven't got a Bettors or Art Major...may as well not be in it" and of course the inequity of two or three horse heats outside Vic.

Is this the last year heats will be run in NZ and interstate? All will be in Vic and I think all on the one day like the Vic Super Sires. There's also an intended prize money increase for the final, previous Board and CEO. Pretty sure, funded by running less heats, no more two and three horse heats out side Vic.

Will these changes encourage more entrants?


edit: just checked, 2018 is the last year for outside heats.

[Amlin]

Just how it used to be!

[eliteblood]

Just how it used to be!

There has always been interstate heats Kyle, and in the early days many of them.
I remember taking a horse to Wagga Wagga to race in a heat.