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Answers to Mr. Elcock’s Questions

Mar 26, 2013 Sports

 

 

Dear Sir,
Please allow me to put Mr. Elcock long growing questions answered once and for all. In your Sunday 24 March article in the sport column he ask about Brighton Turf Club finances, well Mr. Elcock if you were well aware with the game you would be well aware that that club run its last race meet in 1992 when the late Mr. Gregory Vanderstoop was secretary and horses like GO FOR IT still to this day did not received payment of it winnings or even its entries.
However I know you want to know about the race event that was held about 8 years ago, well for your info it was run under Brighton Reform Turf club and that was a event which was run for personal gains by me as I have all the documents and can give you a copy if you so desire to put your mind at ease which includes, Affidavit of Support, Police Permission, Fire Service, Magistrates Pass for Music, EPA Permission, GRA, NDC Permission for use of the ground, since none of its land proprietors were not paying rates and taxes for the land.  There is even a receipt from the Late Mrs. Crawford for the Starting Gate which was taken away before the feature event so as to allow one of your imported horses, who was a late starter off the gate to win. And just for the record, all horses were paid their winnings by the next day in full without any reductions in the prize money.
I am sure a lot of horseracing stakeholders would agree that we should not let horseracing go to a government ministry to have it destroyed in politics just like out cricket and football?
And for the starting gate issue I think all the start gates are still now below demand since there is a high number of horses in each race and the 12 spots are insufficient.  I would commend Port Mourant Turf Club for the extensions of its starting gate to 16 so as to not disenfranchise any horse at the last minute to race time since you would be well aware of the high cost to maintain a horse and the Jumbo Jet family for the 14 spots starting gate that was recently imported to help boost the level of racing.
Also for the camera PMTC installed to help in judging close finishes to better improve the results is commendable, but yet I stood many time at PMTC and see you constantly complaint that the camera cannot give you the correct results and yet you would not import the correct camera to rent to all the tracks to improve results standards.
Anil Bhola

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