May Round Up & Track Watering

Not a good month either punting wise or at a personal level and one I'm very quick to put behind me.  I had been chugging along nicely this year until four weeks ago and then wham. I can't go into detail about the personal stuff but events have strung me out a bit and I'm still feeling very raw.
Here are the figures for May and very sorry reading they make:-

Australia

Bets advised in the blog  7 races and no winners
Stakes       7.60
LOSS        7.60

Bets advised via Twitter  35 races -4 winners
Stakes       41.90
LOSS        16.29

Monthly total for Australia   23.89 units LOSS


UK & International

Bets advised in the blog  6 races and no winners
Stakes        6.60
LOSS         6.60

Bets advised via Twitter  7 races 3 winners
Stakes         7.85
PROFIT     11.32

Monthly total for UK  PROFIT 4.72 units

Overall total for May  19.17 units LOSS


Finally at last the debate about track watering is beginning to get some traction.Daniel O'Sullivan wrote an excellent article about the negative effects of RVL's policy http://trb.com.au/blog/?p=147
and Rob Waterhouse spoke about it on  ABC radio's weekly racing show.UK champion jockey Richard Hughes wrote an article last week in the Racing Post slamming the BHA policy on watering.
If your betting these watering policy's are disastrous.It's not possible to water evenly so track bias is the inevitable result. Don't expect TVN to get involved in any serious debate about this as everyone there bar Mark Shean seems to follow the corporate line which is to only say positive things about everything that RVL and RNSW do.
When I first began punting 40 years ago watering was non existent and track bias wasn't a factor other than on very soft ground at certain tracks where the camber caused the rainfall to roll to the inside.
Now almost every day the TVN presenter qualifies his preview tips with comments about needing to see how the track is playing.The situation in Victoria is becoming ridiculous and RVL's integrity services headed by chief steward Terry Bailey now intend to alter the going classification to make what is now a Dead track a Good one.
 Bailey's tenure as Chief Steward has been poor at best. His handling of the case against Danny Nikolic was vindictive and histrionic and whatever anyone thinks about Nikolic he hardly had a fair hearing. This proposed change to the track rating is another example of how out of touch with the punting public racing's administrators have become.
The surface at Randwick is a basket case and the new grandstand there offers nothing to the everyday racegoer. Instead of chasing millions to fund the "Championships" V'landys ought to be sorting out the mess at Randwick.
 V'landy's confrontational style might have had  owners,trainers and jockeys cheering after he won the race fields case but long term his tenure at the head of RNSW will be seen only in a negative light.
When the decision comes to sell of Canterbury which is the best surface to bet on in Sydney then you will know for certain who's interests the current crop of administrators are really looking after.