Tasmanian Pacing Club
THE TASMANIAN PACING CLUB
together with
LIGHT HARNESS TASMANIA
and the
NEW NORFOLK PACING CLUB
Have decided to have an
OPEN INDUSTRY MEETING
on Monday 26 September at
Elwick Race Track, Upstairs complex
commencing at 7pm
We urge all patrons, punters, horse supporters, participants and their families to come along to that meeting and show these people that we will not stand by and see them destroy this industry!
To all patrons, owners, industry participants and others who are interested in and support harness racing
Since its creation on 1 January 2009, Tasracing has been a complete failure.
It was created to allegedly enable Tasmanian racing to take advantage of work supposedly done in Asia to beam our product into those countries and receive big race field fees in return.
We were told that under no circumstances would Tote be sold.
Both of the above were lies!
We know that there was no possibility of selling our product to Asia.
Tote was put on the market, a move which failed, however in doing so they created a funding deed that has resulted in Tasmanian racing and in particular harness racing being starved of funds.
During the process of creating Tasracing we were told that 36 million indexed to CPI was required to run the industry.
The board agreed to 27 million.
Nobody told the industry that the CEO and his lieutenants were going to be paid salaries and perks in excess of $200,000. Over 1 million dollars in total paid to the few top executives, not to mention the flash cars and other perks.
We were told nobody would be worse off!
Harness racing is $600,000 worse off.
Following is a fact sheet recently sent to all licenced Industry participants which sets out the real facts…
What needs to be added to the facts list is the decision to slash feature race funding for the Tasmania Cup by $60,000, the George Johnson by $20,000 and the 2YO Sweepstakes by $14,000
View the fact sheet
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