Cape Town racing..cutoff at the Orange river..drifting away

I am one of many that have given up punting (or nominal interest on a stand alone) in the Western Cape.
If it's so great how come it is being subsidised at the moment,as it cannot maintain tote turnovers.
The best thing about WC racing is that it is where the changes necessary to save racing will begin......through necessity!

Nice start for Andrewest

All the exotics paid substantially more today at Clairwood than at Kenilworth. One day proves nothing, granted, but facts are facts.

In my opinion everybody should stop trying to compare where the better racing is.
We should be lucky we have racing still in this country with the people running racing at the moment!

just my opinion lads, oh and lasses if there are any.

I agree, Tommy H. These debates are worthless but sometimes I can't force myself to say nothing!

I for one like Cape racing (even with Karl - lol) - not so sure that bigger pools automatically translate into better dividends.

Frodo,bigger pools translate to bigger STAKES,the lifeblood of racing!
These debates are worthless when debating subjective issues but the objective issues are different.....can the tote returns match the stakes being raced for in the WC.....No.....a matter of time then!
Inevitable solution:reduced stakes or increased punting....not while punters are treated with contempt, will the second option happen, as they have alternatives now.
Racing is the only "sport" where the prize money is funded entirely by bettors and yet they have no representation,no voice and not protected by the powers that should do so.
The present model cannot survive!

al a lot i have said is tongue in cheek. there is obviously some good trainers in natal. they just do not do well against the big boys from cape and gauteng. perhaps it is buying power, perhaps not as good as their colleges, perhaps the needle is not so long, perhaps they cannot chose the horses as well, perhaps they have worse grooms, perhaps they dont feed as well. perhaps not. perhaps a mixture of the above, perhaps not.

one thing you cannot say is that your trainers do not get their chances. cyril naidoo, alaster gordon, herman brown, dennis drier and others are big buyers at the horse sales.

one thing i do say is that their are big failures in gauteng and the cape in terms of buying vs performance. we dont see those because charles and geoff and the rest do well.

Were you tired of the other thread Mike?????

rob i dont have the energy to amuse people who have nothing better to do