Posted by jamie Hawksfield
on May 10, 2009, 12:02 pm, in reply to "Re: PARHAM ABANDONED"
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Your comment touches the very heart of the problem. Clearly what you are saying is that no amount of watering etc is going to persuade you to run your horse at this time of the year. So tell me how you are going to make point to pointing profitable in the South East in Jan and Feb when two men and a dog come along???No amount of marketing and promotion is going to get families to come and support on a freezing cold day in this part of the world. This sport has got to realise quickly that people are not going to go to all the trouble to run point to points knowing they will lose money. Either someone is going to have to persuade the BHA to subsidise winter point to point racing for the sake of a few point to point owners and a handful of diehards or we do what Richard Parker did at Peper Harow and prepare very raceable ground on a nice sunny day when there is every prospect of getting a decent crowd. Then we need to persuade you lot to support such meetings and not prejudge what conditions will be like. I would humbly suggest owners need to think about buying sound horses that go on fast ground,like the Turners do, if this sport is to have any future! Thank God for their wonderful support.
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