Clairwood, Wednesday 7 May has been abandoned.

agra Wrote:

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> harry hotspur Wrote:
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> > the election date has been known for a very
> long
> > time so surely gold circle should not have
> > programmed a meeting for this date in the first
> > place if it was going to be a problem.i feel
> for
> > owners and trainers that have runners
> programmed
> > for this day that are trying to qualify for
> > feature races in natal especially the sprint
> day
> > at pmb.the situation in natal is going from bad
> to
> > worse most are saying its getting butchered and
> > many outsiders are laughing at the manner in
> which
> > mr eudy continues to defend this useless mob at
> > the helm .
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> That is my thoughts as well.
Why do you abandon the meeting. Can it not be rescheduled.

Swopping it for a night meeting might have worked!

They could have rescheduled for the holiday just past

Craig Eudey Wrote:

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> JD, the Grooms main representative at Summerveld
> is a groom of mine. Both he and my Head Groom
> indicated that most grooms would not go racing
> until they had voted.They were not going to take
> the chance that they might be late and not vote.
> Considering that the 1st floats leave at about
> 8-830 in the morning it was impossible to get that
> done before leaving.

Only registered voters can vote. A pity you can't get a team together who could work or get a voting station nearby. I suppose we should be happy you employ so many with high degree of civic duty and just move on like it's Christmas. I think my addiction is showing lol

At least they are starting to anticipate ..............a 7 day plan is a start..............a long way from a 3 yr plan ,but you have to start somewhere!!!! X(

If they had arranged a night meeting ,could staff not have voted in the morning??!!

The race meeting should have been changed the day the voting date was announced, quite simple really.......

Tigershark Wrote:

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> The race meeting should have been changed the day
> the voting date was announced, quite simple
> really.......

Agree.. Just not the Grooms.. its also the thousands of Tote tellers and Clerks around the country.. Been talk on local radio the elections might continue on to the 8th like it did the First time round. who knows.

hibernia Wrote:

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> They could have rescheduled for the holiday just
> past


That would have meant planning ahead - would never happen

Poor planning to have scheduled a meet for the day but it's one meeting and people's right to vote is of greater significance / importance even if the outcome is a fait accompli...

For the addicts out there, there's always the UK meets on the day even with no coverage or they may just show those meets due to no SA racing...

Why not have it to run concurrently with the Vaal meeting on the Tuesday.

Doublejimmy Wrote:

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> Tigershark Wrote:
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> > The race meeting should have been changed the
> day
> > the voting date was announced, quite simple
> > really.......
>
> Agree.. Just not the Grooms.. its also the
> thousands of Tote tellers and Clerks around the
> country.. Been talk on local radio the elections
> might continue on to the 8th like it did the First
> time round. who knows.

Not likely da 8th unless the ANC knows it did not get the required votes so they will go to summerveld n clairwwood n ashburton to ensure all grooms voted.
Graeme Hawkins n his team should get their house in order

Now if I was running GC I would have run the meeting the day before with races themed on voting -
MR 88 Fire Pool Handicap
MR 66 Oranjia Cultural Day Dash
Cape Town Sewerage Works Pinnacle Plate
Can't Cope Maiden Plate
Julius Seizer MR 40 Handicap
The Get Out Of Jail Stakes hosted by Kenny K
and the Feature of the day...
To Vote Or Not to Vote