Don't know about that it will be a 388 i was told it & as far as i know it wont be a straight start will have to wait & see but you would think they would know what is going to happen i believe the 600 & 700 will have changers as well.

Whatever the actual truth, it is disgraceful that significant changes like these were not offered out for comment prior to setting it in concrete. Some government instrumentalities adopt this practice, many don't. No greyhound administrations bother - we know best!!!

The last two big jobs were similar. GRSA sought comment on the Murray Bridge concept but not the actual layout or design. Its 520m start is on a bend - ie it rejected to opportunity to push it off to one side in a kind of shute. (WA did likewise for the 600m start at Cannington. Mandurah changes under way are hard to fathom as the published plan is not really accurate).

The biggest blunder was at the brand new Traralgon track which now contains four bend starts (and also has quite a high rate of falls). Again, no comment was sought.

I could go on and on - Bathurst 450m start is a shocker, Sale and Ballarat both repeated nasty bend starts for 511m/545m starts (now 520m/550m). The Gardens 400m start always looked like a problem but it was months before the realised it and has to spend many dollars shifting it. Dapto 520m start has always been a disaster (inside dogs veering out, and more). Lots of work has been done on repairing and rebuilding Casino and Lismore but nothing was done to improve the layouts, the starts and the running (why retain both tracks anyway?).

As for the Gosford 600m, it would be as good as you can get for a bend start, partially helped by the facts that it is slightly off-track and that it leads into a well cambered 520m home turn (Gosford's only good point).

This suggests that all the "expertise" came from within GRNSW, which has demonstrated no competence whatever in track design over the last two decades.

That would include approvals of new jobs which had to be repaired later on - at The Gardens, Gosford and Goulbourn - as well as numerous other costly investments which failed to correct major faults.

Of those, Wenty would be the most important as the 2001 turn changes created more problems than they solved. (If you want a summary, see the thread of Fernando Bale's 35 runs elsewhere on this site. Many of its Wenty runs revealed dogs splattered all over the first turn).

Disclaimer: If there is more current knowledge it would be good to see GRNSW include it in their media release on Gosford. Sadly, that was no more than a thankyou to the Minister for being nice enough to provide some cash. IE we still don't know what is actually going to happen.

1. How many times DID Gosford race per week? &

2. Are these races meetings still being transferred to another track still??

When will the track be re-opening?

It's been nearly 6 months now.

I went past yest, doubt they hit deadline again