SA’s Racing Executive Must Be Incorruptible
Our industry has been severely damaged by crooks like Navarro and Rhein – let us in Southern Africa fight back with integrity as our core principle
14th August 2021
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Our industry has been severely damaged by crooks like Navarro and Rhein – let us in Southern Africa fight back with integrity as our core principle
The day has already started in a testing vein for punters with the Fairview meeting moving from the turf to the all-weather track
‘Since starting out in racing in the 60’s it was drummed into me that the NHA rules & regulations are to be followed to the letter and they apply to everyone connected in racing, no matter who you are’
Without wishing to be rude, the reality is that trainers and jockeys are the servants of owners and punters and it is the latter groups, or their elected alternates, who must rule the roost
Top racing attorney explains just why there may have been no complaints against the Racing Control Executive
My suggestion for it to function properly is that the Board be corporatized
What I like best about racing people is that despite the haters on Facebook and Descartes and the odds and the science and the linear logic, they will repeatedly abandon sense, sleep and safe accounting practice to put themselves on the line because they stubbornly believe in magic.
I have absolutely no doubt that absolutely no one in authority will listen to Leon Smuts or any other reader here
Racing is at a crossroads today with so many challenges facing the sport and many of the woes because of greed and a lack of understanding of what makes for good entertainment
Two proposals of note have been discussed recently in relation to the National Horseracing Authority debate
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
