Jamie one day you will come to realise that I think AT Bankstown, not ABOUT Bankstown. I don't know who's idea it was, the point is that our infrastructure does not allow for what is known to improve turnover-larger fields and nor if it did could we right now provide the horses, hence the only option is initiatives that utilise smaller fields. Jamie you said it was the tab who wanted the greyhound "innovation" greyhound fields are 8 hence in wanting a greyhound innitiative they the tab wanted to reduce our field size to 8.
Mango I know harness racing happens at Bathurst and other places but you need to stop thinking about what participants want or think they need and focus on our primary income source- turnover from the punter. I've no doubt a 1000m track would be good for the participants at Bathurst but can you assure me the 4.6 million people in Sydney would wager as much on a 1000m track at Bathurst, population 40,000 as they would on a 1000m track in Sydney? If so then I'd be only too happy for it to be built at Bathurst. Melton does not turnover as much as Moonee Valley did, and they only moved about 30 minutes out of town.
Cutting down on tracks obviously could release money to be spent on infrastructure at other tracks but always comes with a reduction in the number of licensed participants, something we can ill afford.
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