With all the expense of getting horses to and from Tassie with this drastically reduced prizemoney it really seems a pointless exercise making the effort. Obviously the Harness industry down there is in some sort of financial meltdown with this 60% reduction in their biggest harness event.
You would be able to win a couple of ordinary Menangle races and collect the same prizemoney from January. It's sad , that some states are doing OK and others are really struggling. I don't know what the answer is for S.A. and Tassie but hope someone comes up with some sort of solution soon before harness racing dies altogether in these states. I just don't know how industry participants are able to survive in these two states with such paulty prizemoney.
BTW, not trying to "knock" either state and trust that things will start to look up , but looks a bit bleak right now.