Ballarat has an excellent racing surface that can cater for maximum field sizes, however, sadly facilities are very antiqued and are badly in need for some immediate attention.

Coming in from Kennedy’s Road, the sign, members car park, was openly displayed, except was there no one to direct you.

It soon developed into a bun fight, the most disorganised affair, one parking attendant said, “This way”, his mate said the opposite, it soon became an issue of rafferty’s rules of very man for himself.

The car parking was atrocious and the foot traffic was no better, with patrons having to walk over gravel paving laid when Jim Scobie set up training at Ballarat, more than a hundred years ago, nothing has changed and possibly never will.