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Alan McCabe’s wifes’s blog makes intriguing reading; not least her latest entry, on the chaos caused to smaller yards by the concentration of racing on Saturdays:
http://www.racingpost.com/blog/horse-ra … on/883414/“The racing fan who wants to see the running of these good races will stay at home at watch it on TV because attending one will mean missing another, so the racecourses are largely populated by the disinterested [sic.] who are there to drink all day or enjoy some corporate freebie. Not a long-term agenda worth pursuing for a healthy sport.”
Its a huge bubble these people live in.
They complain about low prizemoney, yet enter subtarriff, they are offered good prizemoney and don’t bother showing up.
Looking back over the past 12 months, the McCabes have campaigned 51% of their runners in front of the square root of feck all spectators at the all weather tracks, yet complain on a day when over 100,000 people pay to socialise, bet and enjoy competitive, quality racing at some of the UK’s best racecourses. But why let that get in the way of a selfish rant about getting a jockey for some poxy Class Z event somewhere.
Every industry has its busy periods, airline staff work more during the summer, the high street hires temporary staff at Christmas. Its a norm in most places. The fixture list was published LAST SEPTEMBER, how much more notice do these people need! She mentions a "perpetual cycle". Take a look at how many runners the McCabes have had each Saturday since the start of June…"perpetual" my arse.
The MOA between the NTF and the stable staff association provides for a salary of £300 quid a week for Grade A stable staff, surely 15 grand a year by 57 horses (£855,000) gives leeway to make a few mucker-outers available on a temporary basis during the busy periods. Arent people
gagging
for work in the UK these days?
Load of old bollix Marie, that’s if you actually wrote it, the
"You draft in your wife and children to do evening stables"
bit leaves me unsure.
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Its a huge bubble these people live in.
A bubble certainly, though rather a small and constricting one. I wouldn’t want their life, for sure. My impression is that the McCabe’s don’t have much time to think about much else outside their "bubble".
Their owners aren’t at the super-rich end of the spectrum. And even you,
Cav
, can’t deny that she has a point about this conscious piling of everything into Saturdays (read Rod Street’s answers if you doubt the fact.)
Their owners aren’t at the super-rich end of the spectrum.
Interesting article here on the owner of Casper Netscher et al.
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Given his political allegiance, presumably all the more galling to this owner that the cleverly named
Caspar Netscher
lost the
Windsor Castle Stakes
to
Frederick Engels
, no less!
Hardly "super rich" if that’s all Mr Wentworth can afford to slip the dastardly BNP…
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