ELVIS is putting on a concert at the MCG tomorrow and the good news is that they are throwing the gates open and it is free to enter.

The bad news is that you are expected to come back next week, pay good money to get in and listen to a bloke who can’t sing a note.

Of course all of the above is as untrue as it is unbelievable but it is a simple analogy to what is happening at Caulfield tomorrow.

Racing struggles for most of the year to put on a show worth paying to go and see and now when they get one some marketing genius comes up with the idea of letting everyone in for nix.

Ah, it is a grand plan and no doubt the place will be packed.

But wasn’t it packed when Black Caviar raced at Moonee Valley on January 27, where the people were happy to pay and they only opened the gates after they badly miscalculated the enormous interest she attracted and had thousands still queuing up to get in.

How about the massive crowd who cheerfully forked over their entrance fee at Randwick last April when she won the T J Smith Stakes.

Then at her next start Doomben was bursting at the seams on May 14, as she raced away with the BTC Cup.

How are the members going to accept it after they have paid their annual fees but have to share the facilities with the one-day-a-year blow ins who mostly wouldn’t know what end of a horse bites and what end shits.

And let’s just hope the Melbourne Racing Club cater better than Moonee Valley did last month when some bars ran dry and the food was in short supply.

After all they have got to sell plenty of grog and food to make up the couple of hundred thousand dollars that they are missing with the free admittance.

Of course they have the hope that these “new” patrons tomorrow will get the bug and become regular racegoers.

Buckleys!