I know a lot of local NSW trainers have been complaining about the competition now provided by a number of interstate/NZ trainers and no doubt other high profile trainers that are making their way to NSW due to Menangle. I wonder if this is a response to that? I'm always for catering for the little guy as well as the little guy. I know Yonkers in NYC changed some of their conditions or added conditions to claimers to allow the little guy a bigger piece of the pie, too by excluding some of the bigger stables that dominate...

In saying that though, trainers in NSW have to realise is it going to get harder now. They have had it easy for so many years now, must be a bit of a shock to the system to have all these big guns move in....