my assessment is made from listed horses racing these days.
most days in south australia there are none.
on the past two saturdays only two races have included listed horses each day. generally there are about 600 races a year that are listed and group races which gives about 1800 qualifiers albeit many that are multiple qualifiers and yet many race meetings have none of these horses running in them.
i dont know where they have gone other than many of them seem to only race for a short time and then disappear either retired or shipped overseas or something.
most country meetings have no listed horses also many good quality country races such as grafton cups, tatts cups, sydney listed staying races, adelaide cup brisbane cup etc are only a shadow of their old self or maybe its a perception.

i think the good old days are gone and the corporate stables have too much dominance now and the lesser trainers arent getting the quality to compete.

this leads to having less bets but perhaps thats a good thing.

i noticed that they suspended a jockey for riding poorly in a race (not giving a horse its best chance in a race). if they are fair dinkum about that we are going to be short of jockeys in the future as well.

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laurie