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GP & Busso
Harness & Greyhounds
GP
Race 1- Storyteller, Mister Macedon, Dardy Boy, Travelban
Race 2- Insta Gator, Secret Reaction, Lamandier, Ideal Tomado
Race 3- Waverider, Rock Artist, Rock Me Over, Montana Glory
Race 4- Jackie Daniels, Freyja, Unlucky, Princess Katie
Race 5- Swingband, Lavra Joe, Machnificent, Goodfellaz
Race 6- Mister Montblanc, My Ultimate Chevron, Carrera Mach, Machlani
Race 7- Franklin Delano, Regal Cheval, Feeling Aces, Joey James
Race 8- Hillview Bondi, Cordero, Ragazzo Mach, Hoppys Way
Busselton
R1- Pushbutton Rock
R2- State My Case
R3- Remarkable Rock
R4- Bet On The River
R5- Motor On Lilly
R6- The Whizzer
R7- Jackpot Joe
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If this is the norm I can’t help but wonder how long this carnival will last. I suspect that many of the horses are unsuited or inexperienced when it comes to standing starts and that is probably the reason for the poor standard of racing, that and the size of the track. I am a big fan of country racing normally having been to most tracks in the last year but haven’t been impressed at all with Busselton so far. Came away from both the meetings feeling this is not good for the sport (or the horses that participate). Hopefully the next meeting will see some improvement but I doubt that I will be going back there.
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qlds harness racing figures have shown that just isn't the case. Fact
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ever heard of the old saying sometimes you have to take a couple of steps back in order to go forward, proof is in the pudding in qlds
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it's honestly sad to say it , got a soft spot for Victorian harness racing, was lucky enough to be there for blacks a fakes hunter cup win off 30 metres at the Valley, a memory that will always stick with me. Unfortunately I don't think Victoria is an orphan when it comes to the decline in the harness racing product
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As for the cataclysmic event that your referring to over in qld , I think it was a case of the industry realised they couldn't sustain the industry with the sized foot print it had so they made the bold decision to reduce it and now the industry seems to be heading in the right direction
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well I think you'd bunch that into 'country' racing which is indeed running at a loss the whole industry is running at a loss
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I don't think anyones doubting the fact that gp is running at a massive loss, but so is country racing , and the fact remains we need a metro track and gp for the time being is that track , for the pool of horses we have we have too many tracks Fact !!! Rationalisation has worked over in qld proving that going backwards to go forward is a method that can work because continuing to do what we are doing isn't working , and that applys for both racing at gp and in the country. Covid times proved that you can centralise all meetings around the high race horse population areas, program meetings to accommodate the lesser class horses and the code can still run no worse than it is at the moment.
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