umlilo Wrote:
> Am starting A NEW THREAD as this issue requires
> some discussion!
>
> 2 questions for the NHA:
>
>
> 1. Why can't the NHA have barrier trials for
> horses (2yr old and rested, etc)?
>
>
> 2. Why not have trainers disclose the situations
> in their stables (innoculations, rested,
> whatever..!) day before each meeting as a
> comprehensive media release?
>
> The betting public has every right to such
> information as horseracing (as a gambling event)
> cannot be isolated and/or exempted from the other
> forms of gambling where transparency is paramount.
> Owners and trainers who do not want to divulge
> such info must be kicked out of the industry as
> they are then dastardly parasites living off the
> ignorant / unprotected punting public (they regard
> horseracing as their own exclusive domain like the
> foreigner Guptas who have their 'Little India'!).
>
> Punters should submit this inconsistency to the
> National Gambling Board and demand that there be
> full disclosure by law since the NHA remains
> totally incompetent to deal with this serious
> issue which is in conflict with the Constitution.
>
> If there is non-compliance, then the licence for
> gambling should be revoked...simple solution!
>
> I agree with Observer (not about the coup), but
> the sudden dramatic turn-around is a concern for
> those of us who study / follow form, whether there
> was money for it or not! On its last run, where it
> was very favourably drawn on the outside in a
> 1200m straight, it finished 50 lengths behind the
> winner and the report is it 'dwelt, did not
> persevere...'
>
> Now.... this?
>
> Or, am I (like many others) missing something?
>
>
> confused smiley
Umlilo, probably a better way to get a petition going would be electronically via the website below.
avaaz.org/en/petition/start_a_petition/
