The press releases from G-view have gone WAYYY downhill since Ernie Saxton is no longer there....WE APPRECIATE what you would post on this board Ernie !!

J H Long....rubbish!  I have recieved the Grandview press releases for more years than I can remember and they have not changed one iota from when Ernie Saxton put them out.  Jeff Ahlum made a seemless transition from Ernie doing the releases to when he began to compose them.  

Fred, you may very well receive "official" press releases on a personal level, but the places that I visit( here at 3Wide, over on SJDR, etc), the releases have been nonexistent since Ernie left. I don't claim to know how the whole process works, but isn't to your advantage to get information about the track you work for, to as many people as possible ? How much extra time does it take to post in a few online forums ?

I happen to know how these things work because I did press releases for Flemington and I am sure any on line site such as SJDR or 3Wides could have simply gotten in contact with track PR person Jeff Ahlum and requested to be put on the press release list and would have been accomodated. 

   Now, to your point.  JH Long insinuated that the press releases had "gone downhill" since Ernie left the job.  That is not challenging the disposition of and distributing of the releases...it addresses the content, or lack thereof of the releases.  Its called comprehention 101.  And I will say again, with complete certainty, that the releases have not decreased in content one iota from when Ernie fashioned them.....not one bit are they different or any less informative of what happened than when Ernie composed them.  In fact, I could swear that Jeff was mimicking the exact way Ernie did them because they followed the same exact format! 

  To  your question about how long it would take to add a few forums to the release list?  Absolutely not a second longer since all of those recieving the releases are bundled into one sending file, therefore, one push of a keyboard key sends the release to all of them.  The only extra work involved is a one time addition of a 3Wides or SJDR email address to the recieving file and for the price of like fifteen seconds work...they are added.  So, maybe you should direct your ire towards those sites who failed to recieve the releases because all they had to do to to recieve them was to ask.  Its as simple as that.

Fred - You're forgettin' one thing....   It's not my job to post people's press releases for upcoming events, cancelled events, rescheduled events, or completed events.

Those tracks that want to speak directly to our site visitors are welcome to take that digital press release file that, as you correctly have pointed out, they have already created to send out via email, and post it directly to our board.  If the person doing the posting is logged in, they don't even have to wait for a moderator to approve it.

Thanks to copy and paste, it probably takes about 30 - 40 seconds total.

I took myself out of the business of posting upcoming event information about 10 years ago because we found that those that would email us upcoming event information would "forget" to email us when there was a change/cancellation/rescheduling, and I didn't like being put into the position of being expected to research each and every event (that had been referenced here on  our board) on the day of the event to see if it was still on or not, and then have to scurry to get something on the board so that folks would know it was cancelled.

Track representatives are welcome to post upcoming events as long as they consistently demonstrate the ability to be as equally diligent to post any changes/cancellations/other to events that they had used our board to help get the word out.

Or not....  It's up to them.

We appreciate those tracks/PR folks that like to get the word out directly to our site visitors, and we're happy to provide that ability for them in an easy, direct manner.

Uncle Tom...THAT was the point of my post...Ernie always made sure 3-Wide had the results

Thank you for the results from the Freedom 76. for me it's easier to come here than search for it or go on thier web siite or facebook.