or the quality in each race tails off very quickly.
20 years ago sydney used to be flavour of the month but over recent years dominance of large stables seems to have taken the oomph out of sydney racing.
in the recent carnival in melbourne out of 27 races i think sydney won 5 of the majors i assume john hawkes won those.
it would be interesting to see the percentages on the trainers e.g. the numbers trained by hawkes, waterhouse, connors, denham etc just to see the make up of sydney racing. then that might show us a picture of what we are talking about.
certainly very unexciting lately but. did manage a couple of winners there yesterday so should be greatful for small mercies.