Intellectual Property Rights: Operators vs Bookies
A layman’s view of the recent public spat between racing operators and bookmakers
18th March 2014
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A layman’s view of the recent public spat between racing operators and bookmakers
A passionate lifelong fan pulls no punches as he tells officialdom that they are presiding over a dying sport, which is going nowhere fast
It is Sunday 2 February and is the third time I have been told by my local Betting World tote that they do not have enough money, writes a Cape punter
I recently attended both days of the Book 1 Yearling Sale at the Cape Town Convention Centre. This was my first “sale” of yearlings.
The sale of assets which are used by horseracing affects everyone either directly or indirectly whether currently or in the future.
I was taken aback when I read the pedigree of Drakenstein Stud’s juvenile that won on Saturday. By Antonius Pius from a sister to his mother
My partner is an RA member, which should give the member benefits, but it seems this is not the case, writes an Owner
The given odds on the Saftote site always tend to be less for the winning horses after the race is run
I travelled to the US, the UK and Australia in October and as a horseracing fanatic I used every minute to enjoy their coverage of the sport
The people who run SA racing are not renowned for their imagination but let’s see if someone has the nous to suggest we hire John McCririck.
Was the last galloper to win a race on SA soil with a seriously hefty impost Buddy Maroun’s champion Golden Loom, aka ‘Goofy’, who lumbered 65 kgs under Anton Marcus to beat Fov’s Favourite 26 years ago?
The Ndoro Stud-bred son of Wilgerbosdrift’s War Front stallion Fire Away, Alec Laird-trained Fire Attack dominated the 2025 Highveld Feature Season Awards
In the late 80s, South African breeders were highly skeptical of sons of Mr Prospector. The main criticism was that he was ‘a dirt stallion’ and we race on turf
The businessman was served with an interim suspension of his Assistant Trainer licence on Friday afternoon and has spoken out about what appears to be mostly a misunderstanding based on a potential lack of communication and bureaucratic red-tape challenges
