Full time stipe for Flamingo

The National Horseracing Authority has confirmed that David Rahilly, a member of the Central Provinces Stipendiary Board, has been appointed as the Resident Stipendiary Steward in Kimberley with immediate effect.
David, has been employed by the NHA as a Stipendiary Steward for two and a half years. Prior to this he was involved in the industry as a jockey and trainer during a career spanning three decades.

Flamingo Park Racecourse in Kimberley hosts race meetings on a Monday, three times a month and there are seven trainers based at this Centre which accommodates four hundred race horses.

Furthermore due to its sand track this Centre attracts a steady flow of visiting horses. With this in mind the NHA deemed it appropriate that a full time Stipendiary Steward be based in this Northern Cape city.

The NHA wished David Rahilly well in his task to ensure that Kimberley becomes a shining example of horsemanship and horse racing in general.

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Bob Brogan wrote: The National Horseracing Authority has confirmed that David Rahilly, a member of the Central Provinces Stipendiary Board, has been appointed as the Resident Stipendiary Steward in Kimberley with immediate effect.
David, has been employed by the NHA as a Stipendiary Steward for two and a half years. Prior to this he was involved in the industry as a jockey and trainer during a career spanning three decades.

Flamingo Park Racecourse in Kimberley hosts race meetings on a Monday, three times a month and there are seven trainers based at this Centre which accommodates four hundred race horses.

Furthermore due to its sand track this Centre attracts a steady flow of visiting horses. With this in mind the NHA deemed it appropriate that a full time Stipendiary Steward be based in this Northern Cape city.

The NHA wished David Rahilly well in his task to ensure that Kimberley becomes a shining example of horsemanship and horse racing in general.

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He gonna have to work 7 days a week to do all the enquiries on inconsistent performances by the horses who race there :lol: :lol:

Very experienced /seasoned horseman who you can talk to as a trainer but he will not take any nonsense . This will be a good stepping stone for him as there is no doubt that he is destined for bigger things . He wont be there too long and methinks that offers from abroad will not be long in coming....

And it is a good move by NHA. .

Of course its a good move! What I would like to know is why has there not always been a permanent stipe at Kimberley? What idiot made the decision that one was not needed in the first place? What has changed? I get the feeling ABC has played a huge role in this, forced some integrity idiots to wipe the shit out of there eyes.

The NHA wished David Rahilly well in his task to ensure that Kimberley becomes a shining example of horsemanship and horse racing in general.

What a bunch of hypocrites

Maya Angelou once said, "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

We are doing better.

Yes, it has taken a long time, but at least we are better off now than we were before.

Thanks to the NHA and good luck to David.

Over the air you keep on about how crap Kimberley is and that they must shut the place down.

How many people will lose their jobs if your wish comes true, but then you are a banker and banks feel sweet FA for anybody but themselves.

chicken n chips wrote: Over the air you keep on about how crap Kimberley is and that they must shut the place down.

How many people will lose their jobs if your wish comes true, but then you are a banker and banks feel sweet FA for anybody but themselves.

Chicken your analogy is profoundly accurate. It has a glaring error unfortunately. I feel FA for people because 99.9999999% of the time, people are responsible for the situations that they find themselves in when racing is involved. Animals are however excluded in my viewpoint. Horses are our prisoners. So when a training establishment has the enviable record that Kimberley has in abuse cases, unsoundness, doping et al, you can be bloody sure that I for one will shed no tears if it gets shut down.

Zsuzsanna, bless her, is correct. This is a good move, in fact it is a GREAT move. Now hopefully, things will improve for horses down there and I wish David well. You on the other hand probably couldn't give a toss. Perhaps you being the big crusader for this dump, could enlighten me by answering the questions posed previously, or are your 1 quid eachways on ZO horses more important?

OTA

you keep having a dig but maybe you should consider a few things and ill keep them down to facts about a horse i represent.

Lez told me that TLG would probably win another race or 2 in kzn but over the course of time.

The decision was made to send him to Kimberley.

He had never shown any lameness or anything of the sort when either with Louis or Lezeanne

When he arrived in Kimberley Tienie called to say he was not walking "lekker"

There was NO heat on his leg. We gave it a few days and he ran but ran flat.

Post race he was reported " lame off fore" again nothing was found. There was no heat and he trotted nicely.

We thought he must have banged his leg in transit from KZN

2 weeks later I'm in Kimberley to see him run. In the parade ring Tiene says " that horse sometimes still does not stride lekker" BUT no heat and no issue under flex.

Wes takes him to the start and he is scratched.

We bring in a vet have an X-ray and find a chip.

Horse retired

So i fail to see how kimberley did us any wrong, infact they did a good thing scratching him.

Easy they scratched him the second time,what about the first time?Maybe if the trainer had picked up his injury earlier he might not have been retired.

Durbs


As i said there was zero indication of anything untoward.

Easy, 1 swallow doesn't make a summer.
The history and reputation that preceded/precedes Kimberley is unmentionable dating as far back as the Vissers and beyond.
I agree with OTA, with the way it was run it ought to have been shut down.
perhaps now with the advent of a full time stipe , things may change and with that my perception of the place as being a world class venue with a world class track, but till that happens, Kimberley is a hole that's needs to be shut.
lets ask the question:
its the punters that finances the racing game, right?
now which punter in his right mind will punt in a place where form reversals without rhyme nor reason continues to go unpoliced.
4 or is it 5 p6"s in a row being carried over.
Like I say even the die hard, are looking for an escape...and the pools will substantiate that.

Sucker


I am 47 years old and grew up at Turfontein and Gosforth Park. I was in SA recently and went to turfies. It broke my heart, i think it was heads up heads down which had more people turfs or flamingo.

I was in a box a turfontein, we could NOT go onto the balcony because they keys had been lost and or changed.

BUT that happens......

IMVHO a better class horse in Kimberley would change peoples perceptions. So I try to NOT send horses there at the end of their careers but rather at a level that they can be consistent.

As for the punter being the lifeblood all i can say is horse racing is like the human body and all parts are needed. Im happy to be the arsehole but the rest is also needed, punters owners staff jockeys trainers and last but not least coffee