Clairwood Thursday

Clairwood a JOKE, GC need to look at themselves, PROFESSIONAL ??????????????? All the logistics a total waste of money etc I suppose all the heirarchy are enjoying themselves in Cape Town.

Farkit. I guess it's partly due to abc this meeting being abandoned. All this talk about graft and what what. Almost 5 pages b4 the first rce of the day.. GC probably got scared we'll be emptying their coffers today...lmaof

i learnt from a avid racegoer that there were holes that were just filled with sand today...there was a high risk of something breaking down today...dont think the jocks were at fault but the authorities....did they really think they were gonna get away with shoddy maintaince....if anything ..thats the way the country is run...short cuts...shoddy delivery and covered with some bright paint to blind us all

Shit RG, potholes on the track? What's next?

Well said Racing Guru, went to course for nothing, only one director on course, Steve Sturless. Owners and punters screwed yet again. Vivi South Africa

Ja ne.. Welcome to SA.. If there isn't potholes in da roads, its on the tracks.. Where next?

Gold Circle apologises unreservedly to all racing’s stake holders and punters for the inconvenience caused by the abandonment of today’s racemeeting at Clairwood. 
 
Whilst there have been on going problems with certain sections of the course, mainly due to an infestation of goose grass, the race track was declared raceable by officials of Gold Circle and the NHRA following inspections during the course of last week and again on Monday and Tuesday. 
 
“It is worrying that the affected turf at Clairwood has not satisfactorily responded to treatment as a consequence of the very dry, hot and windy conditions that prevailed for the first three weeks of January and clearly we are going to have to tackle the problem from another direction,” said Racing Director Graeme Hawkins.
 
A full enquiry will be conducted into all of the circumstances which led to the jockeys’ protest after the running of the first race.
 
ENDS
Gill Simpkins
Public Relations Manager 

that is bull shit....this memo...is an insult to the racing community....i am shocked that a person of hawkins calibre ,can endorse...and actually be a spokesman for.....:
the reason i say its bull is because....the necessary check ups and follow throughs...were not done....
its impossible for us to believe that the through inspections were done on monday and tuesday....because clearly ...this was not an overnight problem.....they saw green grass on monday and tuesday...and tried to race on thurdsday....

what is annoying..apart from what has already happenned(LOSS OF A RACE MEETING)is that gold circle still continues to hood wink us...thats blood boiling....south africa ,apart from being a littlt hot recently has the most moderate of climates...especially durban...and the y still using the wind and the heat to say to us,that that is the problem....take that notion else where gold circle and sell it to the invalids..who think that the earth is square

is hawkins a member of the anc , because he seems to sound like them

There comes a time when the brain is completely immune to bullshit....it serves a better purpose when spread on a grassy race track...

They should all resign when they get back from there party in the Cape...

gregbucks Wrote:

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> They should all resign when they get back from
> there party in the Cape...


What fcukin party. They should resign now.