Cape Turmoil – Punter Must Be At Centre Of Strategy
I talk as a ‘customer’- the punter, not involved in the financials or the politics or the agendas of SA racing
12th May 2022
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I talk as a ‘customer’- the punter, not involved in the financials or the politics or the agendas of SA racing
Could schoolyard level petulance and gamesmanship be at play at the expense of our racing, in the 4Racing corridors of power?
The introduction of the new era ‘one local racemeeting per day’ policy has clearly contributed to the ‘day zero’ situation we find ourselves in this weekend
In our gambling business, how on earth do we tell people clutching thousands of rands worth of losing tickets, that the insiders basically knew before the race, that punters would be doing their money in ‘cold blood’?
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?
Superlative Stakes winner and Classic-placed Gustav Klimt will stand at Heversham Park Farm in South Africa, having stood at Haras d’Annebault most recently
