SA Racing lose 635 owners in 2015/2016 Season?????

I am one who wants to leave because of the bullshit that we get fed by the trainers and the farked up bills we have to pay.The so called trainers have a book of excuses that they feed us when the horse runs bad.They are worse then the jockeys.

Sylvester wrote: OTA

I have a spreadsheet that i can send u. send me a PM with ur mail address and i will forward to u. or u can go to

www.nhra.co.za/common/stats_racing.php

choose option printer friendly
ctrl_a nd paste into excel.
or ask Karel Miedema he probably has it in a real database and all.

Thanks

Too much buying power concentrated in the hands of a few owners resulting in the "crowding-out" of smaller or new owners ??

TNaicker wrote: Too much buying power concentrated in the hands of a few owners resulting in the "crowding-out" of smaller or new owners ??

When I started racing over 40 years ago it was the same .......the oppenheimers, gallos engelhards, beck,hurwitz etc etc
The credit control problems are caused by the propaganda that ownership is affordable to everybody .......it isn't!
It is what was meant by the expression "the sport of kings"

I see this topic was discussed in yesterday's Sunday Tribune.. With mention of this same discussion on this site. Good going, at least its coverage in mainstream press on both topic and site.

I had my colours for about 14 years,only owned 10 to 20% of a horse, that's what I could afford,in that time I was involved in about 16 winners and a group 2 as well, I handed my colours in 2 years ago,i find it unfair to pay the same price to renew my colours as a owner that has 100 horses and me that owns 10% of a horse,so how do they want new blood when they not willing to look after the small owner.

flydubai wrote: I see this topic was discussed in yesterday's Sunday Tribune.. With mention of this same discussion on this site. Good going, at least its coverage in mainstream press on both topic and site.

Any chance anybody could post the article?

flydubai wrote: I see this topic was discussed in yesterday's Sunday Tribune.. With mention of this same discussion on this site. Good going, at least its coverage in mainstream press on both topic and site.

any idea the article heading page number etc and ill try and get a copy

Sorry, Bob.. Can't remember the article name, but was the headline article of the racing page.
I stand corrected, but am sure author was Andrew Harrison? Yesterday's Tribune.

sundaytribune.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

I cannot find the article Sly.
Anyway, the middle market ( the one that sustains racing for the big guys), has already collapsed and a mass exodus of SA Owners and Trainers will happen in the next 12 months. Simple.
So Sly, when u do same figures next year, the numbers will grow a lot...! 635 will he a small number.

And I might add that Rob Faux and Savasp make very good points on this thread.