You ARE obviously from the 'old school' Darky, a dying breed indeed. I used to attend every Saturday metro meeting and a good deal of the midweekers as well, but those days are long gone and not likely to return. I've only been to the track on maybe three or four occasions this year and probably won't go again until the spring.

There is not much to attract the punter to the track anymore, costs of entry, racebooks and food/drink have risen, the bookies bet to too large an overround and the attraction of staying home any playing off the corporate bookies against Betfair is far greater.

I'm sitting here now in my lounge room watching the races on TVN and was amused by the comments of Andre Kassay who is the form guru covering the meeting @ Geelong. He mentioned that the bookies were betting to a 170% overround and I thought that's why I don't go to the track anymore.

Best of luck and watch out for the little old lady with the brolly.