TRACK RIDERS AS RARE AS HEN'S TEETH AS CRISIS DEEPENS
RSN927 TRACK RIDERS AS RARE AS HEN’S TEETH AS CRISIS DEEPENS April 6, 2021 9:40 am By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor Racing’s nationwide staff crisis will be laid bare when over 100 participants, from trainers to administrators, meet later this month. The Australian Trainers Association estimates that Australia is at least 200 track riders “short” as the effect of visa restrictions, and then COVID, decimate rider ranks, leading to unprecedented poaching between stables as trainers struggle to find capable staff. The recent drug sweep at Ballarat, where six of the 40 track riders wer...
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