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oscar wrote: By the way anyone know who owns Racebook website?

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I have been told that Wehann Smith and Mark Bass are the people you should be talking to. I'm sure David Safi has more information on this for obvious reasons.

Why would you be using that site in the first place, support formgrids rather.

So it was not Divan that initially helped Rob Scott and co set up Racebook but in May 2016 a banner advertising a security fence company in Sunninghill was embedded on Tellytrack com website, the SP editor actually phoned the company and they claimed that they were out of business but the owner Fred said his son was an IT fundi, this may give a clue to whom Scott was collaborating with at the time.

What is very interesting to note through both stories is that the RA, Phumelela, NHA and who knows else, discussed, pontificated and basically did nothing to develop a system with the potential to drive business.

So, over years, all these people in management positions kept on running around looking for "new" ideas to drive the interest in punting and owning race horses but did nothing with a system that was proven and had the ability to drive exponential interest in racing???

It is clear that we should already have an electronic system which informs owners of nominations, confirmed runners etc.. There should already be a collateral form guide system freely available to punters or even at a fee which includes electronic race cards, whatever you can think of, it should already exist.

Why should any new structure keep any management that failed to act over the last 10 years???

@tigershark I agree with you 100%. That lot are worse than useless and should never again hold any management positions in racing.

Unfortunately what we think carries no weight. Savage has publically stated that he believes people deserve second chances in my opinion if this transpires, the only second chance would be to continue being useless.

You may be aware that the racebook.co.za has recently become unstable due to a number of downstream factors beyond our control. We apologize for any inconvenience caused to our customers. Please do not be alarmed - we are in the process of migrating our services to a more stable platform and will soon re-launch with some exciting new functionality. Your user information, bookmarked horses and other details are safe and will continue to be available to you.

We will keep you updated with any further progress reports should it become necessary and thank you for your understanding and continued support.

Best regards,

The Racebook Team

What is the actual process to follow when anyone wants access to the racing data from the NRB? Or it's about connections?

Some people seem to get access to this data easily, whereas the rest of us send emails to a black hole.

You may have recently experienced issues with Racebook over the past few weeks.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by several technical issues impacting Racebook.

However, we are now back up and running with a new and improved architecture which will result in a far better experience for all users.

All of your personal information and followed horses have been retained and we’ll be informing you of more exciting Racebook developments in the weeks to come.

Thank you for your patience and support. Please let us know if you encounter any ongoing issues with the new website by emailing technical@racebook.co.za.

Yours in racing

The Racebook Team

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