The Diceman's Been Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 Great chance for NZ to follow suit..............perfect opportunity at Cambridge. TDN: If you had one wish for the racing industry, what would it be? RF: I wish the Australian racing industry would embrace the need for better training facilities. The top tier of racing jurisdictions train their horses on dedicated training facilities, not on small, narrow, tight-turning, training tracks inside the racetrack. England has Newmarket (and more), France has Chantilly (and more), Japan has Miho and Ritto (and more), South Africa has theirs too. Even Hong Kong has now created a state-of-the-art training centre in China. Let’s create some public training centres in Australia to rival the best in the world; where horses can have a variety of training tracks and surfaces, and all the other facilities; where staff can live on-site in decent accommodation with working conditions more conducive to attracting people to the industry. It could be done in Australia, if we have the administrators with the vision to do it. It would be the greatest, lasting legacy any administration could leave for future generations. The horses would stay sounder, happier and healthier, and so would the personnel. We could train and develop stayers better than we do now. It would benefit everyone in the game, either directly or indirectly. Sadly, the priorities right now seem to be top-end prizemoney, new grandstands and corporate entertainment facilities (sigh….). Richard Freedman speaking in the excellent Thoroughbred Daily News today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hesi Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 But the plan is to eventually sell Cambridge to help fund the Waikato Greenfields project, so why not do it once and do it well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, hesi said: But the plan is to eventually sell Cambridge to help fund the Waikato Greenfields project, so why not do it once and do it well which sounds like more of this to me .... Sadly, the priorities right now seem to be top-end prizemoney, new grandstands and corporate entertainment facilities (sigh….). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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