The winners time for the main race at Nelson, is this not telling us something. We breed to USA horses who run miles and look at this. We need more of this to suit the horses we are putting on the track. Also the mares in the field with the last horse going under 1.55 are now worth breeding from for a sellers point of view. The clubs should look at this, they payout maybe $90,000 over nine races to 12 horse fields, pay the same total over smaller fields , say 12 races and miles. As an owner, I would love it, smaller win purse but less traffic in having a go at it, this is how Menangle works among others.. And where are all our racing stock going, just call them skippy. The younger thinkers need to change our sport, they no longer want a tactical 2600metre gut buster and nor does the owner who gets two starts a month from those to pay the bills. Milers get more starts, Look at the aussie horses, the amount of starts and stakes won, time for the old boys network to have a rethink and start by watching Nelson today, only thing wrong their is it is such a great meeting that smaller field might have been a bonus from a punters view. It was a great idea, WELL DONE NELSON