Werribee’s woes continue with the appalling response with entries received for their Cup meeting yesterday.

It is obvious the Cup fixture has yet to find its right niche since the quarantine station was relocated from Sandown to Werribee; this was the savour for the course, but at what expense?

Previously Werribee had been too hot to handle, claims that there was no money available to reconstruct the course, but the tooth fairy was located when the quarantine centre had to be moved.

The race club has suffered since they lost their prime date to Bendigo, no spring racing at Werribee any longer, the Cup meeting was put back to March, now it has gone to December, and what a disaster!

Final entries were very disappointing, a total of 82 horses narrowed down to 64 runners after scratchings, with average starters per race 7.1, and only three races on a nine race program with each way betting.

That is no way to attract people to go racing, it acts in reverse, they stay away, and that can become habit forming.