Sidney, Good to see you folk are acting positively. However, I could offer an alternative approach to what seems to be an effort to promote the name and the activities of QGBOTA. First, rugs have only one purpose - to distinguish between eight runners for the benefit of the viewing public by utilising multi coloured backgrounds on multi coloured dogs. Second, whatever logo you use will get buried and will, in any event, be small in size and possibly not meaningful to a lot of viewers or even trainers etc. Use of a TAB logo is not a valid comparison as it is just a minor part of a whopping marketing exercise. Third, there is ready availability of advertising space on boards at tracks all over the country. Their size allows you to insert a much more effective message and they are well displayed on SKY. My guess is that overall costs would be much lower. Rugs are not cheap. Lastly, I have an ulterior motive but the reasons overlap. My view is that rug colours need to be improved anyway. It is too hard to distinguish between runners in bad weather or in the back straight. 1 and 8 are OK in front of you but not at a long distance in a jumbly field. Put a black and white dog in 2 or 7 and anything is possible. Even the latest change (brown to green) was a help but it still lacks definition between 4 and 6 in bad light. As near as I can determine, the official colours are set by committees around the boardroom table with advice from material manufacturers. However, those manufacturers have a different set of parameters to those which would be used by a professional colour consultant working in conditions at the track. I realise I am digressing from your subject a little but I take every opportunity I can get to push this barrow. The view of the race can be and asset and a huge competitive advantage for the greyhound code.
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