Owners, trainers unhappy after Racing NSW makes late changes to race benchmarks

By Chris Roots
Updated August 5 2014 - 10:09am, first published August 1 2014 - 7:03pm
Kneejerk reaction: that's how owners and trainers have described Racing NSW changing the August program at short notice. Photo: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images
Kneejerk reaction: that's how owners and trainers have described Racing NSW changing the August program at short notice. Photo: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

Owners and trainers have labelled a decision by Racing NSW to change the benchmarks of four races, three on Saturdays, later this month as "a knee-jerk reaction" to small race fields.