Sunday 21st: ARE WE RACING?

These clowns have learnt to do the rain dance.
Its obvious they prefer not to race (cheaper).
Sell tracks, abandon instead of postpone meetings, feed us as much alternative o/s racing as possible etc.
When will owners and trainers tell Phumelela and Gold Circle that enough is enough ?

Do you Einsteinian's with your soaring intellects and huge CEO egos know why there is an agreement NOT to postpone ?

It's just typical that any decision that happens to cross your little turf MUST be wrong.

You must have all inherited your money. lol

Hacker re-surfaces ... !
And no, most of us sweated honestly to earn a living and be priviledged to own horses.
Sadly, you and your cronies are threatening the fruits of our labour.
Off to Breakfast with my family, so Hack away .... !

Hacker you are now talking garbage there is NO agreement nor logistical reason why meetings are abandoned and not posponed hence todays meeting in capetown,it is just sad that the only time they are posponed and not abandoned is when the powers that be are faced with a crisis such as kenilworth not holding another meeting for a while after today and the fact that there are 2 features i agree whole heartedly with pirates that in this instance the owners costs are never taken into account and have a very strong feeling that if we posted that it was a good thing that the meetings were posponed you would have argued the contary,in short "get a life" as for inheriting money i can not see the relavance..please explain

I read what this incredibly ignorant Hacker has to say and I go red!! One of the reasons why I gave up owning horses was exactly this. The idiots at GC don't give a damn about the ownwers who has to spend a fortune to keep these great animals running! So I agree with you Pirates, there is no reason why they cannot postpone a race meeting. Its because we have fat old farts running GC. Get some young blood into the company!!

I must agree with Pirates. Looking around Durban this morning the rain has been taken well by golf courses and the like. Does anyone actually walk the course before a decision is made (cricket they check the pitch and outfield) ??? If not very silly and short sighted cos there seems to be no regard for the customer (punter,owner etc). This business dying a slow and painful death.

Normally there is a wet weather commitee that walks the course in the mornings of a race day. The commitee normally consist of a Racing steward, stipe, track manager, 2 trainers and 2 jockeys.

agree with you pirates 100%, rather postpone than abandon a meeting. The poor owners get a stuff EVERY TIME. Lets not forget the free nominations they have in GC country. Any unfortuate owner who got a good draw for todays meeting is bound to be drawn in the sh!t house next time probably 60/65, and then they wait another month to try & get a decent draw & a run.

got to feel for brett warrens patrons as horses came to durban and go all the way back ..expensive exercise for nothing

sadly so Pirates

Do you Einsteinian's with your soaring intellects and huge CEO egos know why there is an agreement NOT to postpone ?

Enlighten us oh omnipresent one. . .

Whether or not there is an agreement not to postpone meetings is made utterly irrelevent by the fact that some meetings are postponed, while others are not. Such an "agreement", if it even exists, is tantamount to being slightly pregnant.

GC and P just do what they like, whenever they like, without so much as an explanation to the long suffering supporters (in whatever form they may take) of this game. The only consolation is that the present crowd can't last forever, and we can only hope that the next generation if racing administrators is drawn from people that actually care about racing instead of wondering how much more insufferable rubbish from here there and everywhere they can entice South Africans to bet on.