you ain't seen nothing yet.
The beginning of the end for Racing,have you noticed the Stats breakup
of where the betting dollar is going these days.
No wonder mind you, take a look at the races, 99% are either Maidens or Classes 1 through 6 and now we won't be asking what will win R6, or the
3 o'clock at Flemington, but the 0-62 or the 0-86.
That's me out after 50 plus years.

Since 2004 the Powers that be introduced RBH (Ratings based handicapping)
and from now, Dec. 2006, they are adding this little charmer called
RBP ( Ratings based Programming).
Apparently it's to help trainers run their horses via a Rating rather than Class.

I CAN HARDLY WAIT to see how it's going to help the poor old Punters.

Regards.