Guerin: Trainers, it's time to take ownership of a problem

21 April 2021 | Michael Guerin
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We need to talk. Not actually you and me, particularly me, because if you are reading this you almost certainly know I talk enough. Probably too much. But maybe if you are in the harness racing business you should start talking too.

I have harped on about this before and I am doing so again because the problem is getting bigger, the gap larger, something I had hammered home to me over the weekend.

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