Thank you for the invitation to join your website, here is a small article l did on the weekend.
There seems little doubt that current plans proposed by Racing Queensland indicate very little concern for the harness code. The draft schedule focuses on a time slot shift for the gallopers to 12 race format day/night fixtures on Wednesday and Friday at the Sunshine Coast. Further proposed is a return to Tuesday TAB gallops racing, which was dumped by the previous RQ board some two years ago. Albion Park Saturday night aside, the next highest profile trot meetings are Tuesday (Albion Park day) and Albion ParkFriday, (night and/ or day). Each of these meetings now has to compete for the punter’s dollar against the major and certainly more popular code. Given, that on one hand, the codes are to receive distribution based on percentage of the overall turnover figure, the future of trotting in Queensland appears to rest on our harness gurus producing a strategy which will push Saturday night turnover at Albion Park to somewhere past the $5million mark. At this point such a figure, no matter how necessary to combat the downturn which will occur on Tuesday Wednesday and Friday, does not seem achievable.
D Smith, QLD
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