ICRC calls for racing industry consolidation

Jeez, it’d be a shame if the racing industry dies in the arse – where would all the criminals involved in the industry hide their money then?

One thing I’ve always wondered – why does “racing” only apply to horse racing?

breda said :

The whole regulatory and financial assistance structure of racing is an anachronism from the days (over half a century ago) when it was a mass sport. Thousands of people used to go the the horse races, the trots and the dogs, as a day or night out. Nowadays, three people and a dog go to the vast majority of race meetings – it is all sustained by offsite gambling.

Let’s not even get started on how fair it is to punters.

Taxpayers subsidise racing clubs and venues that hold a handful of events a year – if that – thanks to ‘tradition’. It is one of the great surviving Country Party rorts.

You’ve heard of this thing in Melbourne called the Spring Carnival?

Damn! I go away for a few days and the buggers find some other way to waste my – and your – money. Shut it down if it can’t stand on it’s own feet. I can see no social benefit that would justify use of taxpayers money.

I don’t understand why horse racing is even legal. Circus’s can’t have performing animals….

The whole regulatory and financial assistance structure of racing is an anachronism from the days (over half a century ago) when it was a mass sport. Thousands of people used to go the the horse races, the trots and the dogs, as a day or night out. Nowadays, three people and a dog go to the vast majority of race meetings – it is all sustained by offsite gambling.

Let’s not even get started on how fair it is to punters.

Taxpayers subsidise racing clubs and venues that hold a handful of events a year – if that – thanks to ‘tradition’. It is one of the great surviving Country Party rorts.