NO CAPE TOWN RACING THIS WEEKEND...

Dont the W Cape traditionally lose many meetings to rain this time of the year...

Titch Wrote:

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> When did Eastern cape ever have a better tote turn
> over..Flash??


Titch may be you do your home work before you talk shit. E Cape turnover is better for a while now

Its done at national level and WC are told what is decided ,just like any other region.You have to look at the overall programme and WC is only a part of that....82 is the number of meetings and thats that for now.

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> hotline you the big shot down there in cape town.
> i ask a genuine question, who agrees to this
> madness of program and sign it off? who is
> responsible for wc program? i think this guy must
> go right now. the cape is sa top region for lots
> of things but please how can port elizabeth have
> the better turn over? i think and this is no being
> funny, to many people who look after them self and
> not racing is involved there.

This is a game of Kings and @&nts.
If you not on the 'inside' you not a King.
What is so hard to understand? Or are you a @&nt?

Garrick Wrote:

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> PeeKay - I think a lot of us have gone through the
> same process but very few have spoken out - they
> just simply left and found something else to
> occupy themselves with.
>
> Although we all occasionally make reference to the
> 'addiction' aspect of racing/punting I am not
> always sure that it is really a true addiction. I
> may be playing with words but I often feel that
> 'habit' is a better description. So don't be too
> hard on yourself........
>
> If it's any help to you the path to 'recovery'
> took the following course for me :
>
> 1.) I fell in love with UK racing when it was
> first introduced ( having raced locally since the
> 1970s ).
>
> 2.) Then I started using Betfair.
>
> 3.) I started to enjoy the occasional sports bet.
>
> 4.) I owned horses.
>
> All of the above would have described my
> participation at its height. So what went wrong ?
> In no particular order but as part of a combined
> set of circumstances :
>
> 1.) I started to become painfully aware that horse
> ownership was simply a thinly disguised way of low
> cost funding of the industry's assets and
> employees with little or no propspect of a return
> for the sponsor. Allied to declining spectator
> support, general public disinterest and a 'take it
> or leave it' attitude from operators this quickly
> disenchants all but those who the sport describes
> as 'sick for racing'. As I was by then questioning
> the logic of pitchforking hundreds of thousands of
> rands down the drain it was easy to stop buying
> and owning horses.
>
> 2.) Allied to the above I started to question my
> blind loyalty to a sport whose ethics, morals and
> humanitarian values were often questionable.
>
> 3.) I started enjoying sports betting more and
> more as - despite the occasional upset - form was
> easier to study and analyse and FAR LESS was
> deliberately and intentionally hidden from the
> punter.
>
> 4.) Once Betfair started getting popular South
> Africa did the usual 'apartheid styled' thing -
> they banned it. So much for free enterprise,
> freedom of choice and competition. We just love
> monopolies and particularly inefficient ones.
>
> 5.) Lastly - when they squeezed a lot of the UK
> racing off the screens I decided to pack it in
> altogether. If they were not even prepared to let
> me see my punts then what was the point?
>
> The surprise to me was how little I missed it! As
> may be your experience should you elect to turn it
> up. I would be so bold as to suggest that
> everything from your family life to your bank
> balance would benefit enormously as a result.
>
> But there's no need to exit it altogether. Set
> yourself some small rewards - Budget to have a go
> on a couple of meetings or major events each year.
> Then have a full go on them and walk away with the
> profit or loss until the next event six months or
> so later. In doing so you will have broken the
> 'bad habit' and probably increased your enjoyment
> by turning it from an habitual activity to an
> occasionally pleasurable one.
>
> Good luck, mate!


Garrick, thanks for the post, i appreciate it. I am personally not a big punter, but it all adds up hey! I am playing less, but perhaps you are correct. I find myself printing the racecards like clockwork. Why? I genuinely like betting and i genuinely like looking at each race and analyzing the form and coming to my conclusions. I know in my mind that i am going to be a loser in the long run, even though we get some highs every now and then. I have now decided to remove Flamingo Park and Vaal racing from my form studying. I am going to concentrate on Cape Town and Durban racing. Perhaps weening myself off is the way to go?? I never played horses on Saturday, but i was genuinely thinking about it, but was helping my father-in-law with his car.......but when the PA start time came and went, i never worried about racing for the day. Your mind works in funny ways i suppose. I love all sports and perhaps i should take a bigger interest in that. I like betting on rugby (i am actually quite profitable in this). Anyway, perhaps i will post more of my thoughts on this later.