Quote Originally Posted by tiny View Post
Murray thanks for your thoughts. But quite frankly you are very wrong. This process of restructure harness racing is going through at the moment is not about growing an already cash strapped industry. It is about reducing its size and increasing its quality. Harness racing in nsw is once again going to be the strongest in the country. It is about attracting quality from the other states. The last thing that harness racing needs is more substandard nsw bred horses racing for $2000 at bankstown. We can sit back and pick off the best interstate and NZ horses.

If you think harness racing needs hundreds of weekend warrior trainer drivers all fighting like seagulls to a chip to the dregs of the prize money left behind by the big few you are kidding it is the recipe for coruption.

The future of harness racing in nsw is to attract the best from interstate in horses, trainers, and drivers and cull the rest. It is big, expensive, unprofitable and difficult to regulate.

The arrival of Luke 12 months ago only highlighted just how weak the nsw trainers were. Others have seen this and will soon follow.
What is it that you are proposing? No lower levels such as Bankstown $2k races? For a Vic like myself, I am assuming that is like saying NO $3k race meetings at Kilmore (I know they are generally more than this). Where is the community interest going to come from? Where are the future drivers going to come from?

Once again being a Vic can only think AFL for comparison (sorry). This would be like the AFL saying we will keep VFL (one level below AFL level which includes a couple of major country towns) but we do not need country football anymore.