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These clubs can continue to operate and the programming doesn’t change they just race at the premiere tracks for example Williams @ Pinjarra yesterday. Same races same horses just ran on a track that isn’t sub par and out dated by 20 years
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Everyone keeps harping on about turnover well turnover as a fact is higher on the premiere tracks so whether or not it’s a Williams program being run at Pinjarra or if it’s a normal program the meeting will still attract a higher turnover.
As they keep saying the sport is doomed if turnover doesn’t increase and that there is the first step to increasing it
I don’t mean stake money I mean not constantly sticking their hand out
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Kalgoorlie was doomed 90% of the horse population was travelling trainers had both Courtney and Aldo pulled the pin there would of been 30 horses left
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Handicap the races so betting is more attractive to the rank and file punter rather than just the rusted on. Not only that but you have to find a way to make the races more entertaining rather than this walk-dash home which is all to common in WA with good horses drawing well and dominating, they are entitled to at stages but it's just all to common. If it's not entertaining no one will follow it and if you aren't following it even if you do have the odd bet on it it will be a fraction of the size.
Run meetings at GP that coincide with sporting events at Optus, meeting before a game, after a game etc. Yep the bridge bar generates short term revenue and logistically it is difficult to run meetings with road restrictions and what not but I don't care sort it out. It is a massive opportunity lost to introduce new people to the sport, there are so so few opportunities where attracting new blood is possible, this one is so obvious and it never happens with the only reason i see being is its a bit hard.
Summer time food trucks on the lawn at GP. Food trucks all the rage at the moment, last summer we hit up South Fremantle regularly, families everywhere. Charge the trucks a small fee to attend, throw the gates open, spread the word through social media more new people introduced to the sport.
Don't close any tracks. Again even if these places on paper don't look profitable its what they bring in terms of eye balls and participation over the course of the years rather than an individual meeting that counts. Where did everyone develop their love of the sport? My introduction was sneaking through a hole in the fence over summers spent in Busselton as a kid. Didn't pay entry, didn't bet a zac, didn't buy any food. Turned over a small fortune over the next 30 years. You close tracks you lose that introduction point. Plus its alright to say keep track A, B, C becasue they are central and close to freeways and highways but that doesn't help Bill Blogs out in Meckering does it. He gets disillusioned, cuts his interest, doesn't talk to his mates about horses any more, they lose interest etc etc the pool gets smaller and smaller.
Teach all involved in the sport where their revenue I.E. there wages come from and I mean in far more detail than :the brand that funds the industry". Have some seminars that outline in detail we generate X through tote pools, Y through fixed odds with Tabtouch, Z through other corporates etc and maybe then they will see the dire need there is to improve betting on the product and be more opened minded to some of the changes RWWA has tried in recent times.
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Who was the major contributor to the new roos at Pinjarra or the new stalls, who paid for the stall upgrades at Bunbury ten or so years ago??
Non of the clubs would get anything major done without sticking their hands out.
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