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Well he picked up $6.5k for 2nd and stays at 69 so from that point of view it was a successful day out. Nothing to say he won’t target any 4 year old races as well although many of the famous 4 year old races are now just open class races.

You are correct about that but I have noticed the crowd on show day in the last 2 years seemed to be bigger than the years immediately before covid. I think trying a twilight meeting is a good initiative and could work really well. Agree though about the Dominion, it deserves its own special day but it will probably be overshadowed now by the NZ Cup.

The attendance has been dropping in the last few years. I think it’s worth trying.

I’m all in favour of jackpots. The bigger the pot the more people will bet. Just look at Lotto when the pool grows. As far as tying up money goes if that was an issue there are many other bets that tie up money for much longer than Jackpots. Ie Futures betting, trainers & drivers premierships. Jackpots will tie up money for shorter time but unlike the former, Jackpots will encourage new and more investment.

Jess was an asset to our industry. I believe at one stage she also had a hand in getting Harness Racing on the main stream media news some years back. I wonder if she could be tempted back, after all HR does seem to be her passion?. Perhaps they could fund her salary by cutting back on the number of social media employees they have, if it is true what I have heard that they have up to 6 employees in that department.

Yes but did anyone else read about the DSD going to Cullens or am I dreaming lol? If he was going to Cullens it appears there may have been a change of plans & he’s staying put.

Maybe I’m mistaken but thought I read he was going to Hayden Cullen. It appears he is still with All Stars.

The idea of lower stakes racing should be to encourage a class of horse that doesn’t race now due to being uncompetitive, to make up additional races. By just shifting Thursday night’s racing to Tuesday days and decreasing stakes they will only drive people out of racing. Why not have these races for non qualified horses?

Not surprising since there is a significant decrease in stakes for very little reduction of points earned. It wouldn’t be so bad if they were additional races on top of the normally scheduled ones but apparently this is not the case.

Good point Aaron. I thought the whole idea of this was to increase races but it appears this isn’t happening.

I see Invisible in race 2 was penalty free because Junior drivers. That’s fair enough but if you look at its previous start it won and went up 8 points 46 to 54. That’s ridiculous. Are they trying to drive these horses overseas. Honestly if I was the owner I would have been furious.

Agree with you Alf. The difference I imagine is that if you win a race at Redcliffe you probably don’t get rerated so you have to go up against the good metro horses on a Friday or Saturday meeting at Albion Park yet that is what is effectively happening to horses that win at Cambridge on Tuesdays.

I wasn’t aware that horses could get a 7 point increase for a win. I always thought 6 was the limit.

Check out the transformational change thread. We have been discussing it there

We will find out tomorrow when ratings are updated.