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Is the horseracing controversy over?

Dec 22, 2012 Sports

While it seems like all is well and the situation has been amicably sorted out concerning the racing dates between the Rising Sun Turf Club of Arima Park West Berbice and the Port Mourant Turf Club of Corentyne, some questions still linger.
Following a meeting between the Director of Sports, the two clubs, chairman of the Horse Racing IMC retired Chancellor of the judiciary Justice Cecil Kennard and representative of the horse owners and trainers Dennis DeRoop, it was announced that the situation was defused and the parties have decided on different dates, with the PMTC being given December 30th and the RSTC asked to move back to January 6th.
However the principals of the RSTC is indicating that they are not happy with the situation as the 30th was their original date and the solution if any should be the other way round.
They have decided that they will go ahead with their date or cancel their race altogether, a decision to be made shortly.
President of the RSTC, veteran horseracing entrepreneur Inshanally Habibulla, stated that they cannot accept being asked to give up their traditional date to somebody else and use another date, It just can’t work he stated. He is also disappointed with the Government and the IMC for allowing the sport to degenerate.
He reasoned how sensible and logical it will be in that there will be a race on the 26th and another one four days later on the 30th and then on the 6th January. What would be left? He asked.
Both clubs had organised multimillion dollars nine-race events for the 30th of December. A mere three days after the Kennard Memorial Turf Club multimillion dollar Boxing Day meet on the 26th of December.
The RSTC usually holds their end of season meet either on Old years or New Year’s Day or the Sunday closest, while PMTC will usually have a date on the First or Second Sunday of December. Both clubs were casting blame on each other.
Spokesman for the horse owners and trainers Colin Elcock had threatened to keep their horses away from the two meets if the situation was not resolve.
The horseracing fraternity is calling on government to act with haste in passing the necessary legislation which was drafted by Senior Council and eminent horse racing personality Marcel Crawford and handed to the Minister of Sports more than a decade ago.
Both Senior Council Marcel Crawford, Retired Chancellor of the Judiciary Cecil Kennard and representative of the Horse Owners and trainers in Guyana Colin Elcock had laid some responsibility on problems in the sport on government’s sloth in tabling the necessary legislation to rectify the issues.
(Samuel Whyte)

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