Turffontein Tuesday Night?????

scotia Wrote:

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> Hi Dave,
>
>
>
> Thanks for sending this to me. I have checked with
> Patrick and the main reason for having major
> feature race days is driven by the marketing
> budget. It is more cost effective to promote a few
> major race days than to try promote several
> smaller race days. It is agreed that some features
> get lost in the major days, but without the budget
> to promote them on other race days, they would not
> be done justice there either.


No budget but record dividends??

It's not a public company Greg, it's a slush fund...............

What marketing?

These guys have no get up and go ,oops sorry that's what they did do lastnight

scotia Wrote:

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> Hi Dave
>
> Singapore has lost one meeting in the last 10
> years. Not long ago we had almost 80 mm of rain at
> around 2 pm and we raced on the turf that night on
> yielding going. The drainage on the grass track is
> phenomenal and the polytrack is brilliant - hardly
> any kickback even when it does pour.
>
> Should it become dark as it does during a big
> storm we turn on the lights and racing continues.
>
>
> Racing here is just superb.
>
> Regards
> Deb

Have to agree with that...and although if Singapore stopped racing if it rained then we would never have any racing...this is a COMPLETELY different setup and we could learn a few things here on pretty much all aspects of life...it pretty much rains every day here and even the low rainfall seasons which is max 3 months has quite a bit of rain....extremely humid and lots of rain but geared to achieve in pretty much all aspects in ife means the right planning ant the right people to stte the ship means no racing or anything lost for that matter

scotia Wrote:

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> Hi Dave,
>
>
>
> Thanks for sending this to me. I have checked with
> Patrick and the main reason for having major
> feature race days is driven by the marketing
> budget. It is more cost effective to promote a few
> major race days than to try promote several
> smaller race days. It is agreed that some features
> get lost in the major days, but without the budget
> to promote them on other race days, they would not
> be done justice there either.

good luck for racing in gauteng in the future lads as this answer says it all...

You know I like Patrick Davies..he is actually a good guy. Unfortunately for him, as all of us do, he also needs a job and has to bow down and worship those above above him in this created organisation. I bet you anything that he himself does not agree with some of the responses he gives..I actually feel sorry for the him..the one person who had great insight is Debs Hawkins..