any enquiry into todays disgrace at the vaal

10 mm of rain in the last 24 hours and also 7 days and the meeting called off after 3 races..all this talk of how much rain the sand track can take .i am suprized there has been no comment from owners on this website regarding todays shambles

Fair comment Pirates, who was at the track, nothing worse than a wasted trip, was it really that bad?

Pirates I posted on other site..absolutely 100% disgrace ..couldnt care attitude is so evident its frightening mate!

Right from the state of the training track at Turf through the security on the floats to the disgusting unkempt dirty unsafe state of most of the off course totes..this ship is gonna sink unless our saviour on a white stallion roles in.

Similar thing happened today in the uk on turf,thunder storms and torrential rain enough to change the going from good to firm to soft,they just waited 40 mins and re started the meeting

Just "Another Schlepp" for Curlin in the Breeders Cup.

Makes you think?

What a bunch of whosies.Felt sorry for the poor individuals who tracked all the way to the Vaal,bloody disgrace.When are we going to get professional in this mickey mouse industry.

We were devasted - Another Schlepp had a fair chance of earning stakes from a good draw and then we find that we had no racing - so difficult to find races and pay keep and then you don't get to race after 10mm - I have full faith in the Jocks and trainers who thought the conditions were unsafe- what i cannot understand is if the conditions were as bad as they were then why bother to risk horse and rider by running three races? Also for those that did take bets it took ages to declare PA and P6 divs and the folk in the tote I was in were fuming about that

Didn't we have a U be the Judge show a while back where the state of the sand course was debated? If I remember correctly the track manager was on the show and maintained that 'there was nothing wrong with the sand' - and now it can't take 10 mm of rain - wonder what would have happened if it was a turf meeting?

Yesterday proved that the sand track is definitely in a poor state and apparently there is no money to fix it right now - but there is money to send people to Epsom. I know marketing is important, but the priorities seem wrong.

And dare I raise the night racing issue? Why has everything gone so quiet on that front?

They say that they "saved" the industry ..Ja sure!

Not sure if guys are aware that the trainers at the Vaal have a "club" now which will be fighting on behalf of owners and trainers for better conditions there - this will obviously be a priority and I wish the guys well if they can help the lot of owners then I support them 100%

Mr H is it one of those big knobbly clubs like the stoneage guys used to knock each other out with?

Lol Oscar. Did the tote take their full take out on the exotic bets or did they pro rata this. Looked like either sand was removed from the middle or was swept to the extremities as the worst was in the middle of the track.