I think you'll find the average race in the UK has quite healthy prizemoney, they just don't have the ridiculously high amounts for the big races that we are accustomed to, which, more often than not, goes to battlers like Cojuangco, the Inghams, Dato Tan Chin Nam etc.

Scraping 10% off the top echelon of races to boost the bottom rung would be far more beneficial than crap like running nine races on a Saturday in town, a race every five minutes etc blah blah...