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Losing our top horses to the east
West Australian Racing
Flanders
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With the seemingly mass exodus of horses from WA going east it begs the question is the ratings system here flawed? How can it be improved? Seems that as soon as there is a promising horse here, it doesn't get the opportunity to get a cult following that might get more people to the track before it is lost to the east. They seem to escalate up the ratings ladder so quick that there is no choice but to bail. There are a reasonable amount of good ones that seem to measure up over there so it really seems like a waste from the WA racing perspective. The competition here could be so much better if the good ones stayed and surely that would benefit group racing status, turnover etc etc. I guess the lure of the big dollars is too hard to resist.
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That being said...it would be nice if some of the quality could stay in WA...at least for a bit before heading east.
There’s multiple races every week there for highly rated horses.
Here there’s half a dozen a year.
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stop the exodus.
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Perth the best by far training fee/p’money ratio in the country.
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