You could be right. However, long testing of 2nd sectionals and run home times reveal they are very poor predictors of a dog's ability to perform over a longer trip. That goes double for 700m racing.

I had the GRNSW inspectors last week at my place and they were shocked, two years ago there was 38 dogs on the property NOW NONE and I told them the BULLSH&T rules are killing everyone.

Labour your joking surely?
They are anti agriculture and anything animals and are aligned with the greens they will destroy Australia for the city persons vote.
The Shooters and Fishers are about as good as we can get these days.

Facts, please. CBR Labor is in power only because of Greens support, which they offered on the non-negotiable condition that government canned the dogs.

Labor was weak but it was the Greens that did the damage.

Kev, there is no point in blaming the Libs as such. The ban was a personal move by Baird (and Grant) which they then thumped through the party and the cabinet on a put-up or shut-up basis, supported by crook McHugh information (on which the Auditor General called Baird's bluff). A handful did not like that, voted against it, and got demoted at the next opportunity. Toole spoke and voted for the ban so he got a promotion to Racing Minister. The public was not impressed and so voted for SFF in Orange. Grant then got sacked as leader. We have no idea where Gladys will push now.

They are as bad as each other so the industry has no choice but to (a) go direct to the public and (b) try to influence as many MPs as possible.

The pundits reckon the next election is 50/50. I disagree. I don't think Foley cuts the mustard. 4/6 Lib/Nats. You have to deal with both but don't alienate the Libs.

Labour will destroy anything animal for the support of the greens and the inner city vote.
Thats the fact.
They recently tried to destroy outback school of the air and they support the Greens so a vote for labour is a vote for the Greens.

"Roger it's no better in NSW, Wednesday at WENTY 6, 7 dog racers and 1, 5 dog race and the clowns in the bunker think there doing a good job they have no idea".

True, but weaknesses at Wenty were present well before live baiting and the breeding drop-off was there prior to 2015. Post-2015 experience just made it worse.

The overall trend is well illustrated by the above Northam example, which is one of only two WA tracks operating at the moment. WA, which has no live baiting history, has also increased races over the shorts and is desperate for more higher grade dogs. In Victoria, the city "Provincial" meetings often have short fields or only 10 or 11 races, while the main meetings are padded out with Maidens and Novices - ditto in Brisbane. Longer races in SA are short of numbers (and quality).

It all adds up to two things: fewer dogs are up to 520m standard and there are not enough in total anyway. Neither happened overnight but are long term trends.

So find out why. Conduct proper research. Don't kid yourself that Fernando Bale, Barcia Bale & co will fix the world on their own. Then make corrections to overcome the faults.

All of which is why GRNSW needs to rewrite its waffly Strategic Plan. You can't get good answers if you don't understand the question. You can't get good racing if you spend all your time worrying about welfare and little else. You can't achieve success if you concentrate on scaring the pants off trainers. You won't win by expending all your effort on a "World Class" event and ignoring the need to promote solid week to week 5th Grades.

The core of the production side of this business is the bloke with half a dozen dogs and occasional wins to cover expenses and put some food on the table. The core of the income side is a knockabout bloke who understands a bit about racing and knows a good dog or a good race when he sees one.

Look after the grass roots and the rest will follow.

(Does anybody remember the days when a trainer would crawl over broken glass just to get a draw at Wenty? I do. Did anyone ever organise a pool car to take the four of you 100km down to Wenty to bet on a Monday night meeting (as it then was). I did. There's a perspective for you).

Trains - possibly Melbourne but certainly Gosford and Dapto plus card games en route. 5 pm trains out of Central went to both.

And I have never been a "disgruntled" punter, and hopefully never old fashioned. Dissatisfied, yes, retired, yes, but only because the product has been stuffed by experts. Otherwise I would still be filling out a ticket as they carried me out.

Anyway, my grass roots solution is just a stolen thought - every decent sport does it. Those that don't will lose - ie Rugby and greyhounds. Those that do will win - see Penrith RL, or the Swans Academy, for example. Perhaps we could put Gus Gould and Tony Lockett in charge?

8 race card

1 520 mts

7 over the shorts

no 600 mts

no 715 mts

i ask , what has gone wrong with Greyhound racing in Australia

why are more dogs starting of at 200-1 or bigger every day

i follow the betting day in and day out. more money is going on the Greyhounds than ever before, good to see the prize money going up in WA

Roger,
Apart from only being an 8 race card, both of the 2 maiden races have 2 vacant boxes each.
The only race beyond 380m, has 1 vacant box.