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So just clarifying, the complaint is the club doesn't want to take part in the event which provides promotion, but expects to receive promotion anyway? Sounds like the Club needs to start marketing their own events in the local papers and radio stations. 

But thats why you choose to be part of it or not I'd have thought? I just don't buy into $10 to go to the races being termed fleecing people when you see the garbage that people pay money for these days. 
Why is paying $10 any different to being charged to a go to a club rugby or NPC game, you do know that you don't have to have a bet at the races just like you don't have to at the footy.

There is a fee for clubs who enter the ISF franchise which is a contribution towards the marketing costs for the national festival.

The gate charges are normally $10-15 and are a bargain as the club and The Races team put on free kids entertainment, live music, betting promotions with international travel as prizes, on-track games like tug of war, non-wagering competitions, food vendors, face painting, bouncy castles, petting zoos amongst a whole lot of other activities. The kicker is that under 18's enter free.

ISF is designed to welcome families and non-racing regulars to the sport one or 2 days a year. It is a summer entertainment option over the holiday period which fills racecourses with over 64,000 guests a year and ONE MILLION customers since it began 13 years ago. Name another initiative other than Christmas at the Races that seeks to bring kiwis to the races as successfully? I'll wait.

There are some idiots on here...nobody asked for percentages, she has proved the heritage exists.
Trump lying about his offer and trying to weasel out of it should tell you all you need to know.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/15/yes-elizabeth-warren-has-native-ancestry-no-that-wont-stop-trumps-racist-attacks/?utm_term=.41ccb785e039

Can we agree we we need to attract young people to the sport.  How else do we increase punting revenue and owners numbers.
This has been the key to the Australians relative success.  The other thing Australia ha,d was a supportive government which for once we also have.
This growth sure isn't going to come from the old curmudgeons who would rather see the industry die than merge with another club.
To attract the next generation we need a product that is on a different level to what the old curmudgeons are used to.
I'm so sick of the whining and negativity these relics of the industry spout as they try to drag the industry back to the glory days of the 50's which is 
just an unobtainable dream.  If your not part of the future, then do the rest of us a favour and join a bowls club so you can destroy that industry rather than this one.
 
 
 

There is a fee for clubs who enter the ISF franchise which is a contribution towards the marketing costs for the national festival.

The gate charges are normally $10-15 and are a bargain as the club and The Races team put on free kids entertainment, live music, betting promotions with international travel as prizes, on-track games like tug of war, non-wagering competitions, food vendors, face painting, bouncy castles, petting zoos amongst a whole lot of other activities. The kicker is that under 18's enter free.

ISF is designed to welcome families and non-racing regulars to the sport one or 2 days a year. It is a summer entertainment option over the holiday period which fills racecourses with over 64,000 guests a year and ONE MILLION customers since it began 13 years ago. Name another initiative other than Christmas at the Races that seeks to bring kiwis to the races as successfully? I'll wait.