G'day Jamie,
I woudn't be surprised if someone said to Len Smith back in the sixties " geez, you've got a lot of money tied up in land value here Len!"
Point being that the issue was resolved by that club in the time the members of that club chose! Does that sound unfair or unjust?? Not to me.
The Penrith club, being a successfull operation should be allowed to determine it's own passage, after all it has done an excellent job so far has it not? One day someone might read that the club has sold it's land for 400 billion dollars and that the money will be used to "save harness racing"..... sound familiar?
My personal opinion is let the club do as it's members wish, I don't believe that the direction of harness racing in NSW or anywhere else should come from one source alone, history has shown that the smaller the team of decision makers the greater the risk of failure. ( probably due to short sighted personal agendas)
And the bottom line is, why would you uproot, redesign and remodel an operation that is successful when there are others that are not?
So no Jamie, I don't think it's all about selling everyones farm because it recently worked for NSWHRC.
Cheers,
Dan