‘We Have Gone Backwards’ – Racing Fan
The new Racing 240 channel needs to get its act together quickly or it will further erode the dwindling racing customer base
24th March 2022
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The new Racing 240 channel needs to get its act together quickly or it will further erode the dwindling racing customer base
To say to your customers, who are clutching hands full of losing tickets, that they are just basically ‘out of the loop’, should have racing administrators sprinting for the 7 second delay button on the broadcast
The disqualification of the favourite in the third race at Turffontein last Saturday raises an interesting point
This racing television debacle is a mudstorm of massive proportions. But maybe it’s really just a massive early April Fool’s prank
Perceived unity of the racing product had to be the very first issue to deal with, not the last!
If horses can run free, sans buffetting, euphemistically speaking, the best horse will win
The racing television whodunnit continues. For racing, or not for racing?
In this current racing season – we are in the 27th week – Khumalo has been found guilty of the crop rule no less than 23 times
The NHA have suspended him for a month and thus removed his ability to earn any income. Yet they have ordered him to pay them R30 000
As punters we want info from Trainers, Grooms, Jockeys and Owners of what they think about their horses
In a week where an announcement is expected from 4Racing, ask the average stakeholder in South African horseracing about the sport’s shop-window, and it’s a myriad of confusion and urban legend
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
As the clock ticks toward this year’s renewal of South Africa’s most iconic of races, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, it is only fitting that we return to the start of the new millennium and recall all the drama and splendour
It’s time for our racing regulators to accept and understand that they are part of the game, and not outside of it, above it, or bigger than it
