Covid 19 Racing

[Messenger]

Stewards shouldn't be meeting with anyone in a room ! It should all be done via the phone via video calls . Stewards must stay isolated from all participants if they don't have a set of stewards for each region.

This seems very obvious , you can't have any person traveling between regions and coming in contact with people.

If a steward tests + them that whole panel will need to be quarantined for 14 days. They can be replaced and racing continue uninterrupted.
Under the current system if a steward tests + racing would have to stop in each region that steward has visited in the past 14 days !

Bit like the way Police in Victoria are walking around in groups of 4 all next to each other not 1.5 m apart. The virus doesn't care who you are, if everyone doesn't follow the rules we will be stuffed !

Massive point Rick, let's hope that they are regionalizing them at least to some extent

[Mytwobobsworth]

Sitting in a car as they go through the gate and there isn't a roll call like high school.

Led to believe that at one track in particular everyone is entering the track through the horse entry on foot, then having to fill out a form and have temperature taken, so a lot closer contact than a school roll call.

[Mytwobobsworth]

To me there is no difference between 1 person crossing over or 100.
If they have been in contact with someone who tests positive all regions they have been in are over.

[aussiebreno]

Led to believe that at one track in particular everyone is entering the track through the horse entry on foot, then having to fill out a form and have temperature taken, so a lot closer contact than a school roll call.

I've taken it as a no-brainer the commentators going to multiple regions would be kept seperate from participants. If thats not the case its really poor management.

[Messenger]

To me there is no difference between 1 person crossing over or 100.
If they have been in contact with someone who tests positive all regions they have been in are over.

It is the risk factor, the problem is if someone contracts covid-19. 100 people is 100 chances, 1 person is 1 chance of this happening

[Messenger]

RWWA Harness stakes reduction advice (20%)

http://www.harnesslink.com/Australia/RWWA-

[gutwagon]

Has anyone been keeping an eye on the turnover figures ? Would be interesting to see if less sports has increased the turnover.
Also be interesting if having fewer races and less 6 horse fields improves turnover .

[aussiebreno]

Has anyone been keeping an eye on the turnover figures ? Would be interesting to see if less sports has increased the turnover.
Also be interesting if having fewer races and less 6 horse fields improves turnover .

Wagga Sunday night there was one race that had about $500 in the pool with about a minute before jump. Probably not the greatest timeslot and NSW don't usually run Sunday night meets so hard to compare but pretty poor.

[Messenger]

I looked at the 2 Shep meets the other night and the next morning. I always look at the Win pool and the First 4 pools as they are the biggest and generally about the same
The night meet went from pools of $2k to about $8k by the last while the morning meet went from pools of $2k to about $5/6k by the last

[Messenger]

Another 4/8 for Chris Alford at Kilmore today

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...s/?mc=KI080420