How do owners survive in Cape Town?

Some big plans for Cape racing


Polytrack ,new tote outlets, a new training centre, guaranteed stakes for the next few years,bigger and better yearling sale,huge overseas ownership incentives, usd 1 mill races for our summer season 2013 etc etc

Hotline, since you now know who i am now , i will tell you that I have 10 horses permanently in Durban, because CT is in a mess. The same boys who messed up CT backed BM when they knew he had done some naughty things. Hopefully you and your boys, with your new team and the Ringer(who has done some amazing things for CT in recent months) can fix it and I will bring them back. now you will understand why I dont want the midget BM near me in Durban. I thought I got rid of him. My best horses are all in Durbs and if he arrives back then I dont go there anymore and with your big apparent plans in CT then i'll bring them back. keep up the good work, we need some change and I do hope the ethics in CT will improve and defaulters and those who bring our great game into disrepute need to be dealt with. if they arent, owners in CT wont survive.

I hear what you say but I think to paint all of cape racing with the same brush is unfair,you had a bad experience but u must also remember the good times you have enjoyed.I love racing in PE ,it's sometimes a breathe of fresh air but I will always make CT my base, I suppose we are each entitled to our personal choice?Best of luck in Durban and may you have many winners there.....

hotline, you are 100% right, I have many good times in CT and hope to still having plenty more fun with numerous horses in CT(many babies still to race) and in JHB now and as mentioned earlier in Durbs and one in PE too. I just think it is better to spread it around and I agree with you that CT is still our home and will always be my base. Just hope CT racing gets fixed. it seems that we might be back on track soon and hopefully with some new brooms, they might sweep a bit cleaner and owners can survive.

You and I are l little more fortunate than most and we can take the pain, but I can assure you, I know plenty of small owners, trainers etc, who been in racing their whole lives and are taking huge strain and are swerving in all directions to keep going and I am afraid that many of them might not survive.

Something else, we bigger owners need to do is try to get the vets in CT to accomodate the smaller owners (and us of course too) to try to reduce the charges, while we are going through such tough times in CT. with less stakes, less race meetings, yet still the same vet bills(even higher than before) they are the chasing most of our small owners away and have made it just impossible to carry on. The vets need to understand this and we are simply letting them just go on with no control. Also some of the smaller trainers have become the main owners in their yards as most of their owners have run away(many without paying) and these guys are just not coping. I feel for them. Then you get well off trainers and especially the ones who leave SA for greener pastures, then come back, because they had it easy here and push around the authorities and operators to get their own way and of course make it harder for the small trainers to survive and compete. We need to look after the small guys. they are the backbone of racing and without them racing is not what it used to be. racing cannot be controlled by the big boys and the little guys suck hind tit.

Harris Wrote:

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> Absolute crap that 60% of Cape owners are
> foreigners. Just look what Adams and Jooste own. I
> would put the figure at around 10% at best.


i agree , wat about shirtliff,platnner horses as well

"Something else, we bigger owners need to do is try to get the vets in CT to accomodate the smaller owners (and us of course too) to try to reduce the charges, while we are going through such tough times in CT. with less stakes, less race meetings, yet still the same vet bills(even higher than before) they are the chasing most of our small owners away and have made it just impossible to carry on. The vets need to understand this and we are simply letting them just go on with no control. Also some of the smaller trainers have become the main owners in their yards as most of their owners have run away(many without paying) and these guys are just not coping. I feel for them. Then you get well off trainers and especially the ones who leave SA for greener pastures, then come back, because they had it easy here and push around the authorities and operators to get their own way and of course make it harder for the small trainers to survive and compete. We need to look after the small guys. they are the backbone of racing and without them racing is not what it used to be. racing cannot be controlled by the big boys and the little guys suck hind tit. "
Phantom, nice to see a big owner seeing the big picture - Pity many others don't care -

I understand that the Cape will be going "big" as a build up to the sales and Queens plate, many International eyes and visitors and hope for a well needed injection to local racing (tu)

hibernia Wrote:

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> Some big plans for Cape racing
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> Polytrack ,new tote outlets, a new training
> centre, guaranteed stakes for the next few
> years,bigger and better yearling sale,huge
> overseas ownership incentives, usd 1 mill races
> for our summer season 2013 etc etc


really,? is this the new merger group strategy?