Until somebody loses a race Connections will happily keep paying the fines.

With all due respect, where the hell is the riding master in all of this? Surely he should be sitting in on every case and ensuring the rules, applying to younger riders especially, are adhered to. It must take action from ALL parties.

The issue is this letter is hardly going to stop some dickhead going off at greyhound sector or jockey.  Letters like this do not work. However if everyone had to have their real name published they may not be so brave.  The drunk at the pub might not say the same things about Mr X if Mr X knew he was saying it.  Same with social media.

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I'm actually pleased something like this has been circulated.  Hopefully something can be put in place so something can be done about the people who send the hate mail to jockeys, trainers ect.  I was on the receiving end of an email last year after a disappointing run from one of mine, and it was outright nasty personal attack. I am pretty thick skinned fortunately, and I know they'll be reading this post because they obviously read all racing pages ect from what they had written. Obviously just a terrible punter who lost their lunch money and has to take it out on someone else.  As I say I just take it with a grain of salt, but I do know a couple of trainers who had similar messages got quite upset about it.    I'd love to see these people bought down somehow, they think they're clever with their hidden email address and fake messaging accounts but I'm sure they can be found out.    I don't have a problem with people with queries on management ect, but some people are quite personal and nasty and there is no place for that. Yes some people might be doing things differently than  you might think it should be done but no one is out to try and make things worse for the industry and getting on the computer behind a fake name seems to be the easy way to abuse those who are trying.   

This conclusion from that report seems as relevant today as it was then but remains ignored. Adding prizemoney to high-stakes races has not made any difference to betting turnover. In fact, fifty-seven per cent of races with stakemoney above $20,000 do not recoup net betting revenue. The Racing Board believes that the stake-setting process must be aligned with net betting revenue, after allowance is made for high profile racing - both prestigious, valuable races, and recognised picnic and holiday meetings.

https://www.thoroughbrednews.com.au/News/Story/14010?utm_source=chatgpt.com

I don't think it is the core of his criticism but the vitriolic abusive over the top delivery!   Yes they could ban him from a race course.

Really almost 25 years ago...can we please discuss todays issues not ancient history.Its becoming tiresome sorry.

It appears they overlooked including the Greyhound sector who have been subjected to online attacks on them.   Jockeys can also be subjected to some hideous comments online, just like those elsewhere if a punter loses monies.   One perhaps needs to look outside the square of where else people place comments about those in the Racing Sector. It applies equally to them.