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Horse owners plan to keep their horses home as controversy deepens

Dec 18, 2012 Sports

 

Don’t want things to degenerate into chaos like cricket and football

With the controversy over horseracing dates seems to be getting bigger and deeper, both races may be held with little or no horses as horse owners plan to stay away from both tracks if the situation continues.
The clubs have until this weekend to sort themselves out or be faced with a massive boycott from the horse owners. Both the Rising Sun Turf Club of Arima Park West Coast, Berbice and the Port Mourant Turf Club of Corentyne has organised multimillion dollars nine-race events for the 30th of December, just three days after the Kennard Memorial Turf Club Boxing Day meet on the 26th of December.
“We will not be taking part in any meet if the situation is not sorted. If the two races will be held on the same day we will not be participating. The tracks will have to get their house in order.” Those were the words of spokesman of the horse owners and training in Guyana, Mr. Colin Elcock.
“As long there is two races planned for the same day, we as horses owners are saying that we will not take part. We will not be drawn into this madness. They have until this weekend to decide on the way forward. I will stop training and exercising my horses by then, if nothing is worked out. I have already spoken to a number of owners who have expressed similar sentiments,” the prominent horse owner and trainer stated.
Elcock stated that even with an IMC in place he is surprised that things like this will happen. He is adamant that horseracing will not be allowed to degenerate to the state of cricket and football. “Horse owners have a big say. Horses make races, despite the money, horses make races and if there is controversy we will not be participating.”
He stated that when the situation first came to light in August at an IMC meet. He urged the two clubs to sit down with the IMC and work out an amicable arrangement. Either one withdraws their race or they work out a two day programme with different distances or one could have been a handicap race. He is surprised to see the situation has come to what it is now.
He is also laying some of the blame of the feet of the government for not passing the necessary legislation in Parliament.
Persons in the horse racing circle have stated that the venue which usually stage the end of year meet is the RSTC, which is held either on Old Years or New Years day or the Sunday closest. The PMTC will usually have a date on the first or second Sunday of December.
How the situation came to this, they are blaming the absence of proper government legislation for the present scenario.
Two of Guyana top brains and veteran horse racing personalities; Senior Counsel Marcel Crawford and retired Chancellor of the Judiciary Justice Cecil Kennard had both noted that the absence of proper laws and the sloth of government to implement same is lending to the discord.

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