Durbanville replaced by Turffontein

Phumelela Press Release

At the request of Kenilworth Racing, the race meeting scheduled at Durbanville on Election Day this Wednesday 8 May has been cancelled and replaced by an eight-race fixture on the Turffontein inside track.
Nominations for the Turffontein race meeting will close at 10am tomorrow (Monday) with final declarations two hours later at noon. The programme of races is available from the National Racing Bureau.
Fields will be published in Racing Express in The Citizen and other newspapers and TAB sheets will be available in TAB stores.
Phumelela Publishing will produce a free online Computaform for the meeting. This will be available at www.computaformonline.co.za
As late a start as possible for the meeting has been scheduled in order to allow maximum time for everybody to vote beforehand.
Starting times:
Race 1: 12:55
Race 2: 13:30
Race 3: 14:05
Race 4: 14:40
Race 5: 15:10
Race 6: 15:50
Race 7: 16:25
Race 8: 17:00

Is there any reason why they don’t want to race?

I understand the problem with not racing on Wed due to the voting
But they are also voting in Gauteng
There is no racing on Saturday in Cape Town
Next week racing is on Tuesday
Why could the meeting not be moved to tomorrow?
No wonder racin in CT is finished

I see Bloomberg blaming Davis

But also says he requested the cancellation before

Then blames the Government

You have to feel for the smaller cape owners

The ROTW seem to be able to work and vote same day.

elmer wrote: I understand the problem with not racing on Wed due to the voting
But they are also voting in Gauteng
There is no racing on Saturday in Cape Town
Next week racing is on Tuesday
Why could the meeting not be moved to tomorrow?
No wonder racin in CT is finished[/quot...

.....if only the purple option was considered and adopted......eish if they knew then .....what we know now
.....the landscape of racing may have have been a much prettier picture....:huh: :

Passing the buck and hospital passes seem to be Bloombergs forte.

Let me ask this - Kenilworth Racing have known about this "problem" since the election date was announced - here I presume that the racing calendar pre-empted the announcement of the election date. Why is it then that knowing there was a possible problem coming up, that grooms eligible to vote were not registered as special voters and given the option to vote today?

We can make excuses for lots of things that happen that are out of our control. Poor forward planning and even poorer management are definitely not one of them. This day could have been saved with proactive action having taken place.