Ch2 ODDS AND ENDS - not big enough for a thread of their own

[aussiebreno]

This article promoting (?) today's Great Eastern Steeple does not read well for the gallops industry

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/horserac...16-gvlpso.html

It reads to me like the author if not the trainer is worried as to whether the horse will survive it

Fairfield trots and Oakbank gallops both on today. I'm sensing this will be a thing of a past in a decade or so.

On Fairfield though. Did they use to race weekly? Did they go years without a meeting or always had a few meetings a year? Could be making stuff up but I remember seeing Fairfield in the Daily Telegraph when I was a kid but don't recall ever seeing any races there in recent years.