Derek Brugmans response

I have received a few phone calls from people regarding our PE trainer’s decision not to comment on her runners at Arlington today.



Please add this to your PE thread for the sake of clarity.



People may not be aware that Tara has been extremely ill, was bedridden and not at her yard for a week leading up to this week’s Arlington race meeting. As a consequence she was extremely loathe to give advice to punters (which she hates doing at the best of times, as she feels terrible when people lose their money) when Trevor Reid called her.



She tried to avoid the call but eventually answered whilst working her horses at track (in the rain) this morning at 07h30 and told Trevor Reid that she is not prepared to comment on her runners today. I contacted Mr Reid to verify that this is indeed the case and he confirmed her version of events to me.



It is therefore regrettable that the contexts within which she declined to comment was misinterpreted by Mr Reid and that his publisher, Nicci Garner, saw fit to publish this without enquiring why she declined to comment.



Tara has our full consent to comment on any of our runners when requested to do so in a public forum, but we also respect her decisions should she for whatever personal reasons, decline to do so.



We are fully aware of the important role tote punters play in keeping racing going and where possible we will try and assist with the structuring of their bets.



Kind regards,



Derek Brugman

Racing Manager

Mayfair Speculators (Pty) Ltd

I agree with this fully!

100%

Thank you Derek and all the best to Tara

congrats go to trevor reid for the comments ,lets not beat around the bush here miss laing has refused to comment on her yards runners in the past on this forum so lets see the next time a journalist phones her for comments what the response is...

And so what if she tells him to shove it ... for farksake what is wrong with you okes !! Bloody boring reading all the griping and whingeing.

How can you be more transparent than this?Thx Derek and Tara go girl

The Madji Wrote:

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> And so what if she tells him to shove it ... for
> farksake what is wrong with you okes !! Bloody
> boring reading all the griping and whingeing.

: shakes head sadly, you don't want to know if a horse that you think will win by 10 lengths has had a problem and will need the run? Surely maestro you can't be serious. There is no griping or whingeing, just an encouragement to share information which may stop people throwing money away. I can't believe you have never felt aggrieved :S

pirates Wrote:

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> congrats go to trevor reid for the comments ,lets
> not beat around the bush here miss laing has
> refused to comment on her yards runners in the
> past on this forum so lets see the next time a
> journalist phones her for comments what the
> response is...

As Titch would say agree 1 million perc

unfortunately englander we fighting a losing battle and so let it be..a few people use this site to suck up to individuals and say what they want people to hear thinking they will be rewarded ...good luck to them i say ...if anyone wants to know anything abt any of my 3 rats in training send me a pm and i will gladly reply ...and it will be to the point not sugar coated

Pirates please read the thread about JAPAN, and why SAF racing is not doing to well now innit

pirates Wrote:

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> unfortunately englander we fighting a losing
> battle and so let it be..a few people use this
> site to suck up to individuals and say what they
> want people to hear thinking they will be rewarded
> ...good luck to them i say ...if anyone wants to
> know anything abt any of my 3 rats in training
> send me a pm and i will gladly reply ...and it
> will be to the point not sugar coated

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