Up here, we have just seen the nomination deadline for next Tuesday’s Albion Park (our top money career penalty meeting at $7,000 per race), extended twice, from 10.00am Thursday to 1.00pm Thursday to 10.00am Friday. Nobody above the level of a hobbyist owner,trainer or driver (who are all guilty of the crime of loving the sport), appears to be in the least concerned, administrators and professional or “elite” participants alike. Once again I call on the Minister to start talking to people who are willing to shoulder the burden of working their way through any debt situation back to viability and growth. Start chopping the top line of prize money and spreading it out at a lower level on races so programmed that everyone has a chance of earning something and in a format that is attractive to punters, and there will be a reason for hobbyists to return to the game.
D Smith, QLD
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