Jockey Sponsors no more?

Had a message from a jock saying their breeches don't belong to them anymore and that sponsors are no longer allowed.

Not sure if it's only breeches or all sponsors caps or mentioning sponsors on TT

Whats the position in the UK Bob

Dave Scott wrote: Whats the position in the UK Bob

Not sure Dave , but Jocks carry sponsors on the troosers

Interesting, thanks Bob

Its a bs move by Phumelela and Gold Circle. Its all about money. They want it and do not want others to earn without them earning. The jocks will do nothing and the show will go on.

Truthsayer wrote: Its a bs move by Phumelela and Gold Circle. Its all about money. They want it and do not want others to earn without them earning. The jocks will do nothing and the show will go on.

I will be very surprised if this is true and the jocks do nothing about it....jocks hold alot of power in racing (we've seen it in some meetings cancellations).

Will be interesting to see how this plays out....

I know there are quite a few owners that are not happy with their time being spent promoting the jockeys sponsors, who have absolutely f-all to do with their moment, or are not paying the owner for his time/expenses.....? For me even more so if the jocks don't even know who they are riding for but give credit to their sponsors. wtf? This whole racing game is so f....up isnt it ? I must seriously consider getting out, it really irritates the shit out of me. The owner comes last in everything including having to spend their few seconds listening to the jocks sponsors being promoted. Why must my horses winning promote my oppositions business ?

18. COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The following rights vest in and are exclusively for the Company:-
18.1 All rights of sponsorships of and in connection with all races, race meetings and
related activities held by or on behalf of the Company;
18.2 It shall be a condition of acceptance that a horse participating in a race or race meeting
wear a saddlecloth (carrying any sponsorship material or not) provided by the Operator
in terms of Condition 18.1, failing which the horse concerned shall be withdrawn and the
Trainer liable to a fine.
No Owner, Trainer, Rider, Groom or Horse may, at any race meeting or on any race
course of the Company, carry any form of advertising material or sponsorship on
any part of his clothing or equipment without the express written authority of the
Company. The Company may impose terms and conditions to such authorisation;
18.3 The Company may require an Owner, Trainer, Rider or Groom who has an
individual sponsor not to display or wear any of his sponsors' advertising
material when the Company has a sponsored race meeting;
18.4 In the event that an Owner, Trainer, Rider or Groom fails to comply with Condition
18.2 or 18.3, then the Chairman of the Stipendary Board shall require the said
advertising or sponsorship material to be removed or covered, failing which the horse
concerned shall be withdrawn or the rider stood down, as the case may be.
18.5 All rights to photograph, film, videotape and record, by any means whatsoever, all
horses, races, race meetings and related activities held by or on behalf of the
Company and all rights to broadcast and telecast, reproduce and transmit
worldwide, by any means whatsoever, both by sound and vision, including any
Internet transmission, all such photographs, films, videotapes and recordings,
however made;
18.6 All copyright in and to all photographs, films, videotapes, sound recordings, sound
and television broadcasts or any other recordings or reproduction, in respect of
all horses, races, race meetings and related activities held by or on behalf of
the Company;
18.7 All rights (including copyright) in and to all racing programmes, race results, the
historical performances of all horses, race and saddle cloth numbers, the names of
Riders and weights to be carried and all related information.

I follow the credo that nothing lasts forever. Phum, Gold Circle and Ken Racing basically lgrabbed these rights as their own. Ask the Jockeys and trainers if there was any consultation with them. These companies started with licences to hold race meetings and to run and own the tab. They took this with open arms and and a lot more. The only people who took on these giants have been bookmakers and Purple Capital. Guess who is the biggest victor. I believe that the jockeys will do nothing. They are not united and most are as tight as nails.

I totally Agree with you However just to add "The RA gave these rights away "

My, my.

What a pity Zapiro doesn't do racing cartoons....

Seemingly the jocks were given a deadline to register who their sponsors are, if they missed the deadline rule 18:3 was to be used


But the message i received was that they are not allowed to carry sponsors on their breeches, full stop!