maybe those in charge should scrap the ridiculous rules and regulations and promote breeding instead of resorting to these measures.

What a Fu@&ing surprise!!!

Why don't they just cut back to 6 runners except for feature races and leave the distances where they make some sense

These sub 300m distances make an absolute joke of the sport

Exactly Gillian

Its about time we bludged off their earnings

We should just make sure we do right by our sport maintaining it's tradition and racing integrity.

Part of it is running over distances that test our breed.

The horse breeders have sold out to sprint racing and now owners and trainers have to import Stayers to run in major cups.

We don't need to follow them down that road.

I heard rumour ages ago, that the plan is to have 14 tracks in nsw, dont know if it's right or not

this is what would happen if the government wasn't anti greyhound racing. it's as simple as that.

Its no good promoting more breeding without a proper rehoming plan and foster facilities for greyhounds at the end of their racing life.

While I am all for increases in breeding, not taking those measures in increasing the rehoming options will only see us falling into the Anti's hands again by giving them the fuel to reignite the closing of the sport

This is where our leaders have to focus their attention on and provide us with the options

they just don't care and closing tracks is simply being lazy imo.

3 dog race.
4 dog race.
5 dog races.
6 dog races.
7 dog races.
Maidens racing against performed dogs.
Only 2 races had full fields.

OH YES...The BOOFINS got it right in early 2015. Thanks D1ckh3@d$.

THANK GOD the people have spoken again on the weekend, just like they did in October 2015.

The boofins have been told. We've had a gut full.

Well said Sandro.

Most anti's would be of the Green variety.
These are the same people who are in favour of full term abortion.
Well last year in Australia there were 71,000 abortions and there were 43,000,000 abortions worldwide.
How do their numbers stack up against greyhound euthanasia.
They say a 12 week old foetus with a beating heart is not 'life' yet they say a piece of frozen bacteria found on Mars is 'life'

The beginning and end of governments' thought processes are confined to a restriction on breeding. They have identified and exploited what they see as excessive breeding and the industrys resultant inability to meet community standards of animal care. Hence the string of tough rules and promises of more. Scary!

Re-homing, GAP and all the rest of it are great. The more the merrier. But those efforts are flow-ons rather than prime movers.

The real worry is that it has sponsored all the gossip about euthanasia rates being a product of over-breeding a situation which never applied. Therefore one error - in arithmetic - was compounded by another when tighter rules arrived to satisfy the governments PR stance.

To make matters worse, GRNSW then commissioned a survey (basically of trainers alone) to find out why breeding had dropped off. It assumed for some strange reason that grading was the problem and so thats what the survey addressed. No announcement has been seen about what the survey revealed. It would not have helped anyway.

Besides, owners, breeders and trainers have already reacted by cutting back on dog numbers (since Feb 2015), with the only saver being that a handful of top sires are doing very nicely.

Correctly, all efforts should be directed towards encouraging more breeding by whatever means. An industry which is not advancing has only one other direction to go backwards. Standing still is never an option. You cant progress without dogs.

Well no heats could be salvaged which is only the second time its happen in the last 25 years.

Not even the G3 prize money could tempt trainers.
WHY?
Because dog supply is at a all time low.
The boofins put the SCARES up the industry in 2015 and people have stopped breeding & people have stopped buy pups.

Just last year only 1690 litters were registered when 3000 was around the norm.

That's 4 years in a row there has been a drop in breeding.
1690
1460
1500
2324

Tracks can't sustain meetings if they can't get dogs.

Vic figures for 2017/18 are nowhere near pre-2015 levels but did improve on the previous year. Shortly, we may know what happened in 2018/19.

Broadly, I don't think any state is much different. It is a massive issue and requires massive action.

For starters, I suggest a million dollar national marketing and PR program - funded proportionally by each state's income - to take the message out that the canine athlete is a great, historic and brilliant animal worth supporting.

For example if we take "January's figures" in Vic into account, 2019 saw a major jump to near level figures that we were accline to seeing before the Boofie's stepped in Feb 2015.

2019 - 92
2018 - 71
2017 - 38
2016 - 86
2015 - 99
2014 - 110
2013 - 109
2012 - 72

Mind you, last years total yearly figures were only marginally greater than 2017 figures as I stated previously, but you must admit January figures are uncouraging for the State of Vic.

As I've always stated, the industry will eventually be lassoed down to the one area, & this is more evidence to my beliefs as the other States are still idling at low levels compared to pre-2015.