Correct the ratings band system does not work!
Most races has such a wide range so pointless when there is often 20 points difference?
They definitely need another brainstorming system and debate about the way things are tracking!
Every race or many races you see a wide band in the ratings just to get starters, rating 41s racing rating 50s, then FFAlls rating 62, racing rating 80s 90s or whatever, it's a mess. The old system while not perfect you know where you stood.
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You are wasting your time commenting Galah!
It just falls on deaf ears and they have got plenty of $ to splash around when it isnt their own!
At the end of the day Gamma is probably correct, that the owners and trainers take it while it is being offered!
I still believe that many think that it is going to continue like it currently is, but I can see it going into statutory management in the future due to mismanagement.
With respect anyone with any semblance of business acumen, csn see the writing on the wall but anyway punters need to make hay while they can lol