in this day and age there is no such thing as "running dead" the feed and travel bills are to expensive and its very hard to get a decent bet on with the lack of bookmakers and the one's who still attend meeting arnt obliging to a decent bet. here in vic its hard enough to get a run,you hear storys about well perfomed dogs going to quallies just to built there form up. Another example is geelong monday half money races, you have grade 5 dogs running 25.60s for $300 because they cant get a run any where else.

I wasnt around in the good old days but storys ive been told blow my mind....something's do not change tho,"running dead" is finished but running "topped up" is still well alive.