Yesterday’s debacle in which two-thirds of the Hamilton trot card was bumped from its scheduled spot on Sky 1 to accommodate a gallops meeting at Gilgandra should be sounding alarm bells all across the harness racing world, and causing urgent meetings of the peak body HRA to be called so that State bodies and their clubs can be advised of the harsh realities of the future that have been clearly signalled by this move, and try to come up with a plan to deal with it.
Closing Your Eyes and Looking the Other Way Isn’t Going to Fix Harness Racing’s Problems – Or Arrest It’s Decline