"I believe the average punter couldn't give a rats if a trainer is drugging their horse"
Hi Mitch
That's fine and probably right as far as the gallopers & dogs are concerned but harness racing is unique in as much that the majority of punters have a direct link to the industry. If participants leave then they take many punters with them. We've seen participation drop constantly over the last decade & paralleling this has been a decline in punting to the point where we now sit at the bottom of the code pool. We speak to many , many people who are feed up & have already planed to leave because of the cheats. We have a dozen horses & now have glimmer of hope that they may be able to compete at an even level.
We applaud Reid Sanders & his team, he may save the industry yet.