2. Centres of excellence - one stop shops. The thoroughbred in VIC lead the way on that.

3. New HQ - imo needs to be in the Doonside or nearby surrounding area. Where theres already a sporting theme well established. Its very accessible to all directions. But, the trots in Menangle and Melton lead the way showing HQ never needed to be in the inner city. As does Sandown and The Meadows.

4. Prize money structure & grading..I personally like the UK/Ire model of Open grade down to A10. Dogs need an extended racing life.

5. Rehoming - cant escape that one.

As far as I am aware, Randwick and Rosehill are on Council land.

My reply re Thirlmere was to an earlier question. Fact is that work is about to commence on upgrading the trial track to GWIC Standards. All the trial tracks you have listed above were privately owned and selling the land to developers proved too lucrative an offer for their owners. Sydney metro area is expanding and there is no more land available at reasonable prices.

The ban was utter BS used to try and grab Wenty much earlier and for free, nothing else. They used the stupid knitting circle antis as a front to do it! Look at the other states, where the real stuff was found! No bans there!!!!! But, out of it comes an untouchable nature through leading the way of the other codes in animal welfare.

The one common problem with this game is mediocre running off the sport! El Caballo Blanco, privatisation of the TAB etc. hopefully that changes!!

You would have Richmond , which is central/west to to the Sydney Metro and Campbelltown which is south/west of Sydney

All easy to get to via Freeways now

Gosford could also act as a city track for the North, thus you could have 3 tracks offering city prizemoney on the North/West/South of Sydney metro

If we had 2 city meetings a week they could alternate between the 3 tracks and then they would have other dates which offer premium TAB prizemoney

I beg to differ and it's open to interpretation as the `rule of thumb' used to be 100,000 to be considered a city. Anyway, let's agree to disagree and move on from this subject because it doesn't take the previous subject any further.

In no particular order, my top five are:

1. Re-open Cessnock and Wauchope and fund them accordingly so that grass tracks have a place for greyhounds to race, especially ones that aren't suited to loam and / or two turn tracks. It could well reduce wastage or early retirement and GAP

2. Review and change the Grading Rules perhaps to include Grade 6 and 7.

3. Creative programming and scheduling of meetings. We shouldn't have a hundred nominations left over from each meeting.

4. Increase attendance monies for participants and review of prize money overall.

5. Reduce the number of GWIC Stewards at meetings from three (3) to two (2) thus saving on costs, and have one Chief Commissioner and one Deputy (part-time) Commissioner (not two), again saving on costs.

Buying land around the Campbelltown area, or anywhere within a 50km radius of WP would be too costly and probably way out of our reach. Why then can't we all get together and develop Richmond as a hub?

Not if the money became available

Could it be the result of the recent floods? You know, sick cows being sent to the knackeries after spending time in flooded waters? You know, teets under water causing mastitis, milk fever etc and possibly treated with antibiotics & pain killers? I'm sorry to read about it for both trainer and farmer.

The poor old dog trainers outside of the metro area could suffer. I hope everyone is okay. A positive swab is traumatic on it's own.

I was talking to someone the other day who knows Andrew Bell. He and family are struggling. So, Andrew .... we are thinking of you and you are not friendless. Keep going buddy. Well done to Ray Hadley for helping his cause.

Good luck with that in the current climate.