Cost of Horse Feed - 2013

I have seen a significant increase in feed costs this year. Has this also affected the horse racing community.

around 25% since January this year.

Sylvester Wrote:

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> I have seen a significant increase in feed costs
> this year. Has this also affected the horse racing
> community.
>
> around 25% since January this year.


Have you notice fuel increase ::S Tesco and few upmarket south african supermarket will also now have to increase on meat prices if cost of horsefeed go up this much ;)

Not only the feed that has increased. Shoes, vet costs, bedding, grooms, rent (which now includes water and electricity) , noms and declarations, etc , etc...

Costs out of proportion to stakes received. A lot of trainers absorb the increases just to keep the owners in the game....

Very , very hard to keep your head above water at the moment..

@sham racing

What's the cost of transporting a horse from jhb to cpt

Soodum - prob around R5000?

Sham Racing Wrote:

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> Not only the feed that has increased. Shoes, vet
> costs, bedding, grooms, rent (which now includes
> water and electricity) , noms and declarations,
> etc , etc...
>
> Costs out of proportion to stakes received. A lot
> of trainers absorb the increases just to keep the
> owners in the game....
>
> Very , very hard to keep your head above water at
> the moment..

I feel for the smaller yards who really are battling -

Currently New Turf charge R3200 excl VAT. from Jhb to CT. We have carried the last few increases but will be forced to go up very soon. We are not prepared to compromise our service to clients and maintainence of vehicles by being too cheap. Our midway stop in Colesberg has just been revamped to ensure the wellbeing of horses on long distance trips.

Sham Racing Wrote:

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> Currently New Turf charge R3200 excl VAT. from Jhb
> to CT. We have carried the last few increases but
> will be forced to go up very soon. We are not
> prepared to compromise our service to clients and
> maintainence of vehicles by being too cheap. Our
> midway stop in Colesberg has just been revamped to
> ensure the wellbeing of horses on long distance
> trips.


Any idea when the restrictions on moving horses Jhb to Cape Town are likely to be lifted?

And also from Durban....have horses waiting to come back but yet the vet won't allow them to leave Clairwood......rumour is that Peter Gibson got a load of 30 horses out of there that are going into quarantine in CT.....hmmmmmmmmm

With all the increases the owners are incurring regarding training cost, the powers that be still high 5 each other for giving 8-10% increase in stakes. :S

WESTERN EXPLORER Wrote:

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> And also from Durban....have horses waiting to
> come back but yet the vet won't allow them to
> leave Clairwood......rumour is that Peter Gibson
> got a load of 30 horses out of there that are
> going into quarantine in CT.....hmmmmmmmmm


The fact that they would walk off the trucks and go straight into quarantine probably made it ok for those horses. ..

All horses had to have a PCR blood test and if passed then straight to quarantine .
Same ruling will apply to trainers going back to CT but extra cost of test plus quarantine very expensive. Also Quarentine at Kenilworth has limited space...