Colour me Purple article on sporting post

www.sportingpost.co.za/2014/07/jockey-in...al-colour-me-purple/

Eish you need to read,will post the first para or two here

On Friday, 25 July 2014 the NHA issued a press release saying they had investigated allegations that the organisers of the 2013 International Jockeys Challenge had acted fraudulently and brought racing into disrepute.

The NHA states that according to SASCOC’s Constitution, only SASCOC has the power to award national colours to individuals. That happens to be incorrect, but that’s a story for another day. SASCOC’s Chief Executive Officer (that would be Tubby Reddy) has confirmed that no Jockeys’ Association in South Africa has been registered as a member of the South African Equestrian Federation nor as an affiliate member of SASCOC. Therefore SASCOC could not have awarded national colours to any jockey. The NHA states “In view of this, the awarding of Protea colours to the Jockeys representing team South Africa at the 2013 Jockeys’ International Challenge was outside the scope of the organisers of that event.”

eish

Where it got really sticky

On to 2012 and another Jockey International. Despite racing now having no Equestrian Federation membership of any kind, the RA started issuing press releases stating that SA colours would be awarded for the 2012 squad. I contacted Larry as early as September 2012 (and repeatedly at intervals thereafter) informing him that colours could not be awarded as there was no Equestrian Federation membership. Larry insisted that I was wrong. Things get a little complicated after that, but essentially the Equestrian Federation did not consider the NHA a suitable applicant. Instead, Tex Lerena’s Jockeys Association was tasked with obtaining membership. They applied, but because we have 2 separate jockey associations rather than one unified body, the Equestrian Federation turned down Tex’s application as his organisation was not deemed sufficiently nationally representative. By now time was running very very short.
We will investigate!

Larry and co tried to persuade the Equestrian Federation to accept a membership application via round robin (although with both the NHA and Jockey Association ineligible to apply, the body they intended to use for the application remains unclear), but the Equestrian Federation made the rules and requirements quite clear to the organisers and chose to stick to their Constitution and insisted on processing the application as normal at their forthcoming AGM – a date unfortunately scheduled AFTER the running of the jockey international. As an interesting aside, neither the RA nor the Jockeys Association bothered to pursue the membership application after the Jockeys International.

So, Protea colours could not be awarded in 2012 because the organisers failed in their due diligence and did not ensure that the relevant paperwork was processed in good time. As the Protea emblem is a national asset and abuse is a punishable offence, the NHA acted correctly in preventing Protea colours being awarded. Unfortunately Mr Wainstein took a rather different view, appearing on Tellytrack to blame Adv Maselle and myself for the stuff up, rather than accepting that it was an organisational shortcoming on his behalf that had let down the jockeys, sponsors and the racegoing public.

what a brilliant article

Wonder if LW will say sorry ?

Bob Brogan wrote: what a brilliant article

Agreed, well written and obviously well researched as she had first hand experience.

It is such a pity that the important parts of racing is run by the people that it is run by.

Hope some good comes of this and we move forward in a more productive way from now on.

I had the pleasure of spending some time with Robyn at the July weekend and she is one wee talented lass.

Has this topic been exhausted

Are we bored with it ?

Or does nae one give a toss about rules and regulations etc anymore ?

Bob Brogan wrote: Has this topic been exhausted

Are we bored with it ?

Or does nae one give a toss about rules and regulations etc anymore ?

Very few people are interested in the state of the industry, and therefore take little notice of it's regulation.
Another most interesting subject, is the continued,plowing of money into tote pools that still often return very strange (and/or even suspicious dividends). These are now tamely accepted,in spite of no reasonable explanation ever having been offered for them!

The only proviso is ,that if the local product continues a downward spiral, the very popular tipping threads will eventually relate mainly to overseas racing.

I have to say that the establishment's strategy of "ignore them long enough and they will tire and give up the battle" has worked very well,in the main!

It is remarkable the number of own goals in a sense the management of racing score. They are played big bucks to run this sport and yet don't deliver on the big things.
They lurch from one crisis to another and many still unresolved.
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