Racing Schedule in the week.

Dean321
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Racing Schedule in the week.

2 months 4 weeks ago

Does anyone know why specifically there is less and less race meetings?

Is it financial? Not enough horses to race?

Monday I can understand as everyone needs a day off I guess.

Why not give p.e twice a week to race?

I also am not a fan of CT racing and my opinion perhaps should get the mid week meetings and leave the weekends for JHB and now the KZN season.

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2 months 4 weeks ago

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PE has enough horses and thier track never has issues when the grass is not good for racing it's onto poly with no issues. How many meetings get lost because jocks decide track is not good? Pe should have had 2 slots a week a long time ago

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It’s very simple- the number of horses in training has declined and there are currently only enough to support about 5 meetings per week nationwide

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PeterD wrote:

It’s very simple- the number of horses in training has declined and there are currently only enough to support about 5 meetings per week nationwide

Number of horses have indeed declined - but I in Gauteng it makes no sense to have only 2 meetings a week - witness the meeting scheduled for Thursday programmed as a 9-race card - Race 3 has 20 runners, Race 4 has 17 runners, Race 5 has 15 runners, Race 7 has 14 runners, Race 8 has 19 runners and Race 9 has 20 runners - can't recall when we have that many runners per race - this is the 2nd week in a row where we have not had race meetings scheduled on the Monday AND the Tuesday - also the Cape has had many races filled to capacity - I think it could be planned better.

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Frodo wrote:

PeterD wrote:

It’s very simple- the number of horses in training has declined and there are currently only enough to support about 5 meetings per week nationwide

Number of horses have indeed declined - but I in Gauteng it makes no sense to have only 2 meetings a week - witness the meeting scheduled for Thursday programmed as a 9-race card - Race 3 has 20 runners, Race 4 has 17 runners, Race 5 has 15 runners, Race 7 has 14 runners, Race 8 has 19 runners and Race 9 has 20 runners - can't recall when we have that many runners per race - this is the 2nd week in a row where we have not had race meetings scheduled on the Monday AND the Tuesday - also the Cape has had many races filled to capacity - I think it could be planned better.

I think perhaps it comes down to can they afford to split races and thereby double spend on stakes - I think that's a big problem - I'm not sure the coffers are big enough