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i happened on an interview with the mrc ceo, john kanga about caulfield. the question of lights came up, the ceo said no way and mentioned it would cost 3 million.
now in the big picture 3mio seems a reasonable amount. with our sunshine solar panels could keep costs down.
another thought, drop $500,000 from those 4 $1.5m races....most of it goes over east anyway. there's 2 mio to start with.
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For summer and at Belmont only and I reckon there would be more people at night than daytime.
It would be cooler in temperature at night and also a lot of people work during the day on Saturday now so it would allow them to go. Also Perth nightlife is pretty lame so it would go hand in hand with the casino and Optus stadium close by.
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It’ll never be a WA thing. We could race to 6:30 between December and March every year, to get the after work crowd in for the last 2-3 races on the way home.
On the east coast it opens up the Hong Kong/Asian punters. If WA goes to full under lights racing we open up ???? What markets??
It was a good idea 10-15 years ago. Maybe even 20 years ago. But i struggle to see why we’d do it now. Betting habits have changed, as has our revenue streams. On track punting is now a novelty activity for the events crowd.
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