Northern trotting is the weakest I have ever known it, nice to see alot better fields tonight and more runners, but open class is non existent (except trotters) and anything heading down south is easily despatched.. I would love to see Auckland get back to its glory days and hopefully the stake money will help it along, what a shit situation though, North island has 2/3rds of NZ population and 3 harness tracks WTF.. Cambridge used to be quite a strong hold with decent fields, claudlands used to suck up the weaker class of the Waikato plus we had Northland at ruakaka, another track Wellington was also great, served the CD plus Nelson/ Marlborough and weaker Canterbury area.......I grew up going to Alex park standing on the rails mesmerised by every minute, huge crowds with one ear listening to reg Clapp and eyes glued to the action...but now when I go down to the cheap seats people are just sitting in the tab area or playing pokies.....why the fuck do they bother going out! People have to much at their fingertips now and I can see a time coming where racing Will come from just few tracks in NZ, no people (except those watching on internet or t.v) ....ive got to go femgina my robot girlfriend has just finished microwaving my dinner...?