The time has come for me to get out of racing

I feel for the owner and the trainer, they prepare the horse for weeks and months only to get to the course on a sunny day and racing is canceled, what is going on here,are these guys substandard that they can't do the job,if I had a horse running today and went all the way to the vaal, I would have been spitting blood today,I really think heads must roll,start at the top coz they don't care what's going on. It is a disgrace how racing is run, really am sorry for owners that get treated like kak.

All I can say is thank the good God for the overseas racing that keeps one interested in the game.
From Cranbourne to Chantilly to Chester or Devonport to Deauville to Doncaster, just love the variety that comes with it.

The local crap was long killed by the idiots who implemented the MR handicapping, closed down racecourses and created sandbeds that cannot be raced on without a drop of rain falling and millions of litres of water required to slake the thirst of that surface.

Where is the plan B if the all weather surface in not up to scratch?

Savasp there is no excuses for today-I had a horse in 3rd been off the track for 5 months prepared for her comeback after some injury issues she is sorted out and would have been in with a shout,so I drove to the Vaal and this happens.

In Feb same thing had 5 runners in Kim irragation system leaked drove all the way for nothing


There is too much small talk in racing no ond is prepared to call a spade a spade I WILL in the next week or two I hope to have a winner and it will be wise of them not to interview them because it wont be a arse kreeping speech I will tell them in simple english what I think of the people running racing I am more than pissed off

The circus has always been in town, no it has not just arrived and the clowns running the show, be it operators or track managers or the ones wearing jockeys, the entertainment is world circus. :lol:
There was a meeting in Bloemfontein a few years ago and it was abandoned because the midgets in jockeys complained that the GRASS WAS NOT CUT SHORT ENOUGH!!! :woohoo:

I saw that they must do away with the jockeys and the bookies. Let the horses run on their own. Stick a huge carrot on the running rail (like the bunny with dog racing). No excuses, no blaming the jockey or the bookie if a 25/1 arrives. Yet another fantastic idea by myself. What would the world be like without people like me.

Better? :silly: Just joshing chicken, of course

Nik, I understand your passion and anger and sympathise. But, without trying to sound overly pompous or anything similar, try not to bring those "feelings" to the fore when interviewed, you will only bring more sh1t to your life that you can no doubt do without. Be calm and it will be delivered with much greater effect without comeback. We often lose "arguments" through passion and anger, not because we are wrong. ie don't be Ziets-like as once he was! lol

There is no forward planning in this industry ownership is a real waste of time nowadays..it's an industry built on excuses..we all have to do what we have to do no argument with that..moaning gets you nowhere action is what counts

I love the Durban July

Don't give up posting on the forum on the "other" racedays Batman...

oscar wrote: There is no forward planning in this industry ownership is a real waste of time nowadays..it's an industry built on excuses..we all have to do what we have to do no argument with that..moaning gets you nowhere action is what counts

What do you recommend? Is there a trainers committee that could put pressure on the governing body.If the trainers got their heads together and didn't declare any runners for the next meeting?
I know owners would suffer for having no runners,but would it pay off long term?
It doesn't look as if the powers to be are doing enough,needs regulating much more professionally

"if the trainers get their heads together "

This has been attempted. It WONT work in SA, many men with racing's interest at heart have tried and failed.

The truth is most trainers while they might agree, are spineless. They WONT boycott, they will nominate.

One thing that can be learnt from Tex Lerena and his men is they stand together. Right Wrong or Indifferent they don't budge and they negotiate asa collective.

Brett / Charl and other YOU all know fought for many things in racing to be changed, now 5 or 6 years later those things are common topic on this forum.

Yet they "brought racing into disrepute" funny hey how things are panning out exactly how it was predicted.

Funny how as "crazy" as Ian Jayes is the grooms issue has no become the owners problem.

Ultimately horse racing will carry on, their will never be a boycott across the board because all that will happen is that 8 jockeys will wear the same colours in a race just with different skull caps.......

i won't offer odds on the colours being correctly guessed.

SA racing is finished, to read posts by people like Batman is gut wrenching and even though Davetheflower is correct that technically a boycott would work, the way trainers are in SA it just will never get off the ground.

As a 24 year old, thank God I'm reading these posts today and not a few years ago..