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Wasn’t there an announcement last year from David Martin that Melton was going back to Saturday night meetings in the new year instead of the mix between Saturday and Friday nights? It is Friday night tonight isn’t it?Originally Posted by Messenger
I think you will find the Terang Club found the extra funds, not HRV
Wasn’t there an announcement last year from David Martin that Melton was going back to Saturday night meetings in the new year instead of the mix between Saturday and Friday nights? It is Friday night tonight isn’t it?
I had not been to Terang harness before last night.
It was good to meet poster Carol/Yabbie who told me that the new committee have done amazing work in the last 12mths.
The Cup purse doubled this year to $60k
I wondered whether the field and crowd would have been much different if it had stayed at $30k
The reason I ask is I wondered whether some of this money could have been put towards facilities
The track is excellent and the facilities pretty good but I have no doubt if the club were offered $30k for improvements they would find numerous ways to spend it
Possibly the money was only obtained for Cup sponsorship
The crowd was good and the racing excellent so hopefully turnover was good (although they needed a couple more tote windows open)
ps The same crowd next year could attract a few more mobile food vendors eg a real coffee van, pizza truck, maybe even ice cream ....
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
That would be akin to putting the cart before the horse Kev.
In the Herald Sun today
On the Ando's Shout page (Jon Anderson)
Rein In Cheating
The greyhound and horse racing industries have had the blowtorch applied in recent years, whereas harness racing has largely been left alone.
Don't expect that to be the case for long. Anyone cheating in that industry should think long and hard about it given their time is coming.
WTF heaven help us if he couldn't manage to write about Poster Boy or anything other than having a shot at us for NOT being in the news for the wrong reason lately
His paper will be quick to crucify us when next we do BUT at least wait until we do
Many would agree with the warning but it is not something to be reported.
Maybe Jon wants to exchange his keypad for a pulpit?
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
He might have backed the favourite in the Chariots?
Hi Kevin - nice to meet you in person Saturday night.
I understand there are plans for improvements for facilities at Terang but waiting on funding.
The committee will be holding a debrief very shortly and I know that the food situation is definitely on the agenda.
I'll pass on the comment regarding more tote windows being available.
Cheers
One other thing I think they could consider cashing in on would be making a big deal of the special Menangle races they share the night with (it could boost turnover)
I don’t think it would be a no-no to intermingle the Menangle fields with Terang's in the race book (even if only the big races)
Ps It was good to see race books being sold at the entrance turnstile (although I wonder whether making them free would be balanced out by the likely increase in turnover )
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
Bendigo had a semaphore board last night. One of the timing trucks has returned so some but not all meets will have them (until April)
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...ck-at-bendigo/
Greg Sugars was a Champion harness racing person
I don't think Jon Anderson wrote this.
https://nationaltrotguide.com.au/sus...se-of-deja-vu/
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