Thought in your more recent posts Wayne you were in favour of extra funds going to prizemoney, didn’t you say you wernt incentivised by bonuses to buy or breed but were incentivised to do so by by prizemoney?

Chalk and cheese the difference in how the additional money is being used in Victoria and Qld. Higher assessed horses are the big winner in Vic where’s as maiden and lowly assessed horses bred in Qld win out there, It was only around 10 percent of the foal crop that went through the sales, though with declining numbers it may be a higher percentage now but with the majority of horses raced by their breeder the distinction between breeder and owner is largely moot. Though in these modern times the administration could treat the breeder owner and buying owner differently if they wanted. Regardless, there needs to be a stimulus that doesn’t exist sufficiently now to arrest the decline in foal numbers as without horses we can not put on the product.

I don’t know if there will be more horses win their QBRED bonuses then there were previously Wayne because that comes down to programming. Have to say I always thought it was a bit of a red herring when David Martin said people wanted the $5k races retained because it was easier to win a bonus in a $5k race. It doesn’t matter if it’s a $5k or a $7k race what makes it easier to win a bonus it is if the race is programmed for horses that haven’t won a race. Don’t know enough about how QLD
do or intend to program their races.

Not sure if it was intentional or not, but it is a big incentive in Qld to have your QBred maidens race in the last month or so of the season and into the first couple of months of the new season, a period when traditionally we struggle for horse numbers.

I in favour of democracy too Wayne but I suspect the only vote we’ll get on what’s on offer in QLD versus Vic will be by people voting with their broodmares feet.