Originally Posted by
arlington
The new system could be good for the smaller clubs in that if punters warm to tiered racing they will punt irrespective of where the meeting is held...of course, turnover days will still be greatly dependant on things like pay day and when discretionary income is exhausted.
You have to think about programming on a regional basis Kev, not so much a particular meeting. In the example you've given, even though harness horses are more likely to race over various distances rather than specialise, it's significant those two races are over different distances and we do have a big C1 pool.
In referring to regional, and considering the horse pool, you'd look at the races programmed for a particular class of horse in the 7-10 day period around that date within a region e.g Stawell, Ballarat etc when picking a race for your horse.
It will be very interesting to see if punters really like the opportunity of the possibility of less odds on favourites. I wonder what the computer modelling looked like on exotic bet forms?