topsy,
Sorry for the little bits that are changing your topic.

For what it is worth my thoughts on the industry is that there is just too much of it.

WHY do we have to have racing on a Sunday for example, isn't 6 days a week enough.

Not that I am any expert on the subject but I was reading on the weekend that the next Randwick meeting is to be run on the inner track much to the objections of the trainers etc, because of changed distances of some of the races which doesn't help in the preparation of their horses.

The trainers wanted the meeting switched to the farm but were told by the AJC that the TAB wouldn't allow it.

THERE'S the answer to the decline, the tabs and the dollars.

Why the hell should a TAB have a say in where a race club wants to run it's meeting.

Cheers