Owners Already Stretched
I see July nominations are coming up today. It is ridiculously early. Who knows what’s going to happen over the next three months? What do they want? A list of irrelevant names?
13th April 2016
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I see July nominations are coming up today. It is ridiculously early. Who knows what’s going to happen over the next three months? What do they want? A list of irrelevant names?
When it comes to welfare, we simply cannot afford to bury our heads in the sand as that merely leaves our rear ends exposed for someone to come along and take a swing.
I would think that owners would like to have their horses running as often as possible…
Racing, I feel, has the most wonderful way of shooting itself in the foot or kicking itself up the butt
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In Great Britain in 2015 there were 3,226 registered breeders and just under 90% had four broodmares or less. Yet, despite having this group of potential racegoers that are already deeply engaged, racecourses do very little to encourage breeders to attend the races more often.
Horses are like paintings: people will only pay what they think they are worth and that was very much the case a couple of weeks ago
Throughout history, there have been a number of extremely promising sires who died after leaving just a couple of foal crops behind
An afternoon with South Africa’s ‘super champion’ trainer and horseman extraordinaire, Terrance Millard
In Time Is Money this week we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights
High drama and some potentially dangerous race-riding cast a dark cloud over the inaugural running of the R5 million HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth
After dedicating herself fully to the role for four challenging years, the increasing demands on her time and personal life have led her to reassess her career direction
Two smaller stables made their mark last week with notable victories, each carrying a backstory
