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I wrote a couple of weeks ago regarding my opinion of prize money, the hopeless quest to attempt to raise city to $100,000 per race on non-feature race days and the abandonment of supporting the grass roots of racing and the lack of understanding that racing will only prosper if you increase the health of the front line of racing, that being the country and provincial racing circuits. A simple look through the recently published Australian Racing Board’s new Racing Fact book would indicate that to aspire to raising prize money to compete with jurisdictions that operate with the same prize money levels is showing the door to a big industrial cellar, without doing anything to enhance and increase the revenue stream that is driving your levels. Whilst the courts can currently decide ...