I have been looking at some early 70's yearbooks and have been reminded of the fact that The Showgrounds never raced in August or September. I figure this would have been at least partly due to The Royal Melbourne Show but I cannot understand why a Saturday night meet wasn't held at all, say at Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong. I would have thought that even back in those days they would have seen a danger in not providing anything for the fans for 2 months. Harold Park raced every Friday night.
Does anybody have any ideas on why it was so?