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Trying to understand your post. Did you mean to say 'disenchanted'.

If you are disenfranchised with the industry you are in, get out of it, unless of course you are earning a living out of it, which all becomes a bit ironical anyway lol Either that or do something to change it. Don't keep on spewing your guts all over social media.  That reflects on you as a person, not on the situation you are commenting on

Cheltenham chief executive Guy Lavender's confident prediction that crowds would be up at this year's festival was borne out after another big turnout on Gold Cup day March 13.View the full article

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I know it's off topic but I see Wyndham have knocked down their grandstand, storm damaged earlier on which basically means they only have a small clubhouse to shelter from, also racing at Gore this week who also knocked a stand down recently but still scheduled for kindergarten day at Wyndham, Question is what next for Wyndham, be hard to justify a new stand, be fucking bleak there on a cold day as most of the trees have gone too.

Or apathy.  But I lean towards the "just getting on with it" theory. My observation is that much of the noise is coming from a minority who have largely disenfranchised themselves.  Some of the more vocal are those who struggle to succeed amd have taken on an attitude of "well if I can't win then no one else should either". Not to say that there aren't significant issues to be addressed e.g. profitability, programming, state of tracks etc.  But there appears to be no collective organisation amongst the disgruntled to deal to the issues which begs the question are most indeed happy.

exactly. It's like an election survey. A lot of people can be swayed by just one or two events that some will always blame the 'Government' for. and /or follow someone else's lead who already has a biased view. and refuse to change mind or give credit,  even when some good changes occur.  So once the Doomsday person's speak up, and they always do , Racing has a lot of the wrong type of people representing it in a positive light. even like at BOAY Thomass and Brodie do so often dragging the great sports down, when in reality they are just that . Great Sports. and for decades many fabulous persons have contributed to it , participatingin racing clubs, and breeding and racing racehorses , and making a living too from the industry that has some of the best horse people and horses racing ,  that are some of the very best on the planet.  thin Jmac was voted best on planet ? Waller can't be far behind either.     

Veteran sprinter Tejano Twist has an opportunity to take another step toward the $2 million mark in career earnings when he faces an expected six other older runners in the $250,000 Whitmore Stakes (G3) March 14 at Oaklawn Park.View the full article

I don't think you can read much into the results. 8% response rate and likely to be skewed by the non-response bias.  In other words, most of the silent majority, who didn't reply because they are just getting on with it