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Busselton Boxing Night

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9 races at Busso on Boxing Night, great promotion by the Club, didn't see anything much from Racing WA. ALL  fields fully subscribed with some emergencies, for the first meeting under the new flexible handicapping system and new programming model with a long awaited return to Discretionary handicapping. Very competitive racing with horses of 40 and 30 metres winning and placing, making for exciting contests.

1,360
patrons on course plus officials drivers, trainers, stable staff, club staff
and both club and community volunteers operating the fund raising food outlets. No wonder there was a bit of a queue at the Donut stall????. On course turnover in excess of $30,000......and some on here....and in power at RWWA/Racing WA/GP (much the same thing) want to close it down? No doubt the usual suspects poised above the keyboards with their standard responses with which they can go and take a funny run. We have heard all their flannel before.

Under the failed New Business Model in the last 6 years (since November 2018), there has been 318 Friday meetings at GP, there has been ZERO x 10 fully subscribed fields. The stats on the number of high stake 5,6 and 7 horse fields are absolutely eye popping and we all know who has benefited from them. They are the facts, they can say what they want, they can childishly and pointlessly block whomever they want from accessing or commenting on  their Facebook Page but that is the reality.

And the solution is to "rationalise" the country tracks to prop up a centralised boutique industry for a select few? Based on past decisions, I think not.

The chances of a Parliamentary Inquiry are next to zero given the numbers and the electoral cycle but the Nationals and the Libs should get on their bikes and make it an election issue. Country Clubs should be peppering their patrons asking relevant questions. The phantom Minister Papalia should be made aware. Libby Mettam featured prominently in the Busselton race book on Boxing Night. Grassroots politics is always the most effective to prevent terrible decisions.

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  • warrenrobinsonwarrenrobinson    262 posts
    RIH HWOE, hopefully the people who introduced the model also RIH.
  • Ivorytrunkey86Ivorytrunkey86    225 posts
    Was a great night jay jay,took the family down and they enjoyed the night,the pony trots and hot donuts were a big hit with my kids.
    My only gripe for the night was the cold breeze and having to pay $5 for my three kids all under 10 to get in. $35 gone before we parked the car.
    Not a huge issue tho.
    SJ Suvaljko showing again he’s the best stand start driver in WA by a fair way.
  • Ivorytrunkey86Ivorytrunkey86    225 posts
    Also a big kudos to the big panda Matt young for some fantastic calling,the sooner he takes over the top job the better for harness racing.

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  • PinballwizardPinballwizard    13 posts
    Agree about Matt’s calling, always top notch. Loved his barracking for mare when she won
  • PinballwizardPinballwizard    13 posts
    His mare when she won
  • Chopchop43Chopchop43    305 posts
    JayJay said:

    9 races at Busso on Boxing Night, great promotion by the Club, didn't see anything much from Racing WA. ALL  fields fully subscribed with some emergencies, for the first meeting under the new flexible handicapping system and new programming model with a long awaited return to Discretionary handicapping. Very competitive racing with horses of 40 and 30 metres winning and placing, making for exciting contests.

    1,360
    patrons on course plus officials drivers, trainers, stable staff, club staff
    and both club and community volunteers operating the fund raising food outlets. No wonder there was a bit of a queue at the Donut stall????. On course turnover in excess of $30,000......and some on here....and in power at RWWA/Racing WA/GP (much the same thing) want to close it down? No doubt the usual suspects poised above the keyboards with their standard responses with which they can go and take a funny run. We have heard all their flannel before.

    Under the failed New Business Model in the last 6 years (since November 2018), there has been 318 Friday meetings at GP, there has been ZERO x 10 fully subscribed fields. The stats on the number of high stake 5,6 and 7 horse fields are absolutely eye popping and we all know who has benefited from them. They are the facts, they can say what they want, they can childishly and pointlessly block whomever they want from accessing or commenting on  their Facebook Page but that is the reality.

    And the solution is to "rationalise" the country tracks to prop up a centralised boutique industry for a select few? Based on past decisions, I think not.

    The chances of a Parliamentary Inquiry are next to zero given the numbers and the electoral cycle but the Nationals and the Libs should get on their bikes and make it an election issue. Country Clubs should be peppering their patrons asking relevant questions. The phantom Minister Papalia should be made aware. Libby Mettam featured prominently in the Busselton race book on Boxing Night. Grassroots politics is always the most effective to prevent terrible decisions.

    rationalisation has worked in qlds with that facts and figures to boot but you flat out refuse to acknowledge that , I don't think anyone WANTS to see tracks closed down but the industry is only going backwards and country racing unfortunately is becoming a financial blackhole alongside gp, so something NEEDS to be done to stem the bleeding unfortunately whatever rwwa elects to do isn't going to please everyone

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  • AbbysAceAbbysAce    643 posts

    Was a great night jay jay,took the family down and they enjoyed the night,the pony trots and hot donuts were a big hit with my kids.
    My only gripe for the night was the cold breeze and having to pay $5 for my three kids all under 10 to get in. $35 gone before we parked the car.
    Not a huge issue tho.
    SJ Suvaljko showing again he’s the best stand start driver in WA by a fair way.

    Kids should be free, 

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  • warrenrobinsonwarrenrobinson    262 posts
    Morning, Interesting comment by Roger Cook in the Sunday Times, with 80% of WA's population in Perth this is not sustainable and declares regional growth is vital for the stated future (no different to the racing industry) RWWA  certainly don't have the management expertise to grow the racing industry and this has continued on from the WATA days of administration.
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