What do you suggest the stipes do know.

Violence is not the answer but I don't blame the punters on course. If anybody gets hurt I put the blame solely on the stipes and the people in charge of making these decisions. I mean you don't even have to be in the racing game but if you watch the race you can see what happens. So as a person in charge and you look at the race what do you think when you see replay. So if you can make a decision so quick you must be prepared to accept the consequences. The stipes should get fired immediately.

IMHO, if a horse's stall does not open in time and the starter does not call a false start then the race should automatically be null and void. What would have happened if My Sanctuary ran 3rd the favorite unplaced and then becomes a scratching throwing punters out their PA. A gate not opening on time MUST be called a false start.

What Stpes they paid puppets or muppets? Ok maybe unfair cause I was one of them at one time but screw that they just get told what to do or what not to do . Shame for them but bigger shame for the people that really controll racing. YOU OWE ALL OF THE PUNTERS OWNERS AND TRAINERS AN EXPLANATION . CLOWNS.?

At the end of the day "THE RULE" is wrong, not the stipes....they were left with no option but to apply the RULE, there are many others that need to be revised, because they have Grey Areas. These rules need to be ammended ASAP, but if a game or race starts even if we do not agree with them we unfortunately need to accept and live by them, if we allow people to revolt or protest against RULES where will the line be drawn. The protest should begin tomorrow to prevent this from happening again, because it will happen again, as the Stipes will stick to the letter of the Rules, it is not open to debate.

Colin F no problem the stipes are the police that's all they can do that's there job but it just goes to show how smug the people who make the rules are. They just have no vision or interest on who makes this game survive.

The one to that should carry the brunt of the blame for this fiasco is the starter...I would love to hear his reason for not declaring a false start in the first place, it would appear that he was the only one on the planet that never saw it...

why dont the head stipe come on the Forum and explain the ruling in not delacring the race Null and Void , we understand that the has been a rule Change , but it was quiet clear for all to see what happend . TT gave the stipe a Chance to come over and explain to the Punters , he did not take the Offer , Now we say put something in writting to the Forum .We do know that all of the stripes and racing officials read what goes on the FORUM.
we await your reply with bated Breath.

can also the RINGER give us his View on the outcome .

as aperson who should be running gold circle told me there should be a provision where the operator can overule and declare the race from a betting point of view null and void and paying out the winner and placed horses connections the stake money and taking the 120k knock...but as we know zero management

The Ringer won't comment I'm sure of that ? The head stipe will have to ask his boss first . Just a sad bit of incompetent people running an industry that makes them to much money while forgetting the people that make it viable in the first place!

Have they never scratched a horse running in the first 4 that started late after a slow gate since September 2009?

Gold Circle regrets the abandonment of today's race meeting at Clairwood following the running of Race 6, the Kings Pact Stakes for two year old fillies.



The odds-on favourite, My Sanctuary, was impeded at the start by her gate opening slowly but nontheless finished in third place and in terms of the rules of the National Horseracing Authority, the result stood.



The relevant rule (61.5.10.1) reads as follows:- "Should the starter consider that through any faulty action of the starting gates or from any other cause, a fair start has not been effected, the starter may declare a "no-start" (false start). Should the starter not declare a "no-start" (false start), the Stipendiary Board may, after a hearing, declare any horse which was impeded at the start by a front gate not opening a non-runner, provided that a horse which is ultimately declared first, second, third or fourth in a race by the judge, shall not be declared a non-runner.



Gold Circle races under the rules and regulations of the NHA and is bound by the rule. Unfortunately, members of the public at Clairwood staged a protest and, despite the presence of members of the South African Police Services, neither the NHA nor Gold Circle could guarantee the safety of the riders and horses scheduled to participate in races 7, 8 and 9 and, as a consequence, it was decided to abandon these races.



It is intended that both The Kings Cup (Grade 3) and Pinnacle 1200m (Races 7 & 8 respectively) be postponed to Clairwood on Sunday, 24 March.



ENDS

why isnt the 9th race also put onto next weeks card?