Mustve been a bit of last minute $. waste of time having tote pools with this amount of wagering surely? Restrictions on some punters and not others is acknowledging that the Bookies do not play fairly when treating individuals differently. They put up the odds but arent prepared to take the punters on?  

It was all six races.

It really is a matter of getting your races accepted as prestigious enough to be accepted by HKJC who run the World Pool. Probably the reason why they switched the Railway, being a G1 to KM day. Unsure whether the World pool applies to the entire meeting or just specific races. Someone else will know

I don’t disagree with you but the pool was about $1300 and I’m sure most people like the Broadster tend to take fixed odds these days (assuming the don’t have heavy restrictions like the Broadster). 

The trouble is, they make a lot of noise, and they try 50 times harder than the average racing person that posts on social media, so they give the false impression of the industry. Look at Wightman, he is absolutely convinced that he speaks for most of the industry and that most of the industry is behind him. Trouble is he persists with this rhetoric ad nauseum and many just let him run freely at the mouth because he simply overpowers them.