3rd September 2021
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A collection of opinions and thoughts on all aspects of horse racing from around the world.
The Scottsville Wednesday meeting was a generally unhappy one for many punters with a Mullins Bay first-timer blowing the whole world out in the jackpot opener – and a backed horse unseating his jockey, before being passed fit to run – and then arriving a dirty fourth
With a first birthday just around the corner, the Racing – It’s A Rush initiative has to face some serious questions. Like what has actually been achieved and why a simple marketing tool like a website appears out of their reach? The jury is out – but you be the judge…
The glamour of the British Royal Family, the American Triple Crown hero and Africa’s Greatest horserace – they are all great for added value horseracing entertainment. But does the ground-floor punter really get his rent paid by the Zayats, the Windsors, the Joostes or the NHA and racing operators?
The moment was lost on Tellytrack, who chose to show us a harness race from Penrith instead of broadcasting a momentous historic moment in SA horseracing
Owners alone again carry the can and jockeys and trainers are unaffected
A jockey being stood down at Fairview today for reason of it being a religious day, reminds us of the good old days when Good Friday stood alongside Christmas as the two days of the year when racing took a complete break
Tellytrack’s broadcasting clique appear to have forgotten that it is horseracing and the customer, not their chummy anecdotes and nauseating smoke-blowing, that should define the information narrative
Phumelela put on the show-why are they so quiet and saying so little 24 hours after the event? Taking the fifth amendment maybe?
The charismatic legend of Andrew Fortune sitting on that expensive couch in an outfit that looked like he came straight from cleaning his garage , made the show worthwhile
Considering that exotic bets are all about structure, about boxing clever and cost, and that beyond actual form and favoured yards, jockeys are just about the most important consideration for many, then punters may have been done a dirty
The classic has a long and proud history dating back to 1955 when it was run as the Cape of Good Hope Guineas
