Sunday racing will fill void

Officials of the Arima Race Club are saying that a low horse population is causing a shortage of entries. Is it time for Sunday racing?

In Trinidad and Tobago, Sunday racing is again at the forefront. Let’s be honest and admit that Sunday afternoon is a desert, straddling weekend euphoria and Monday exertion; when hands are idle, hearts are vulnerable and minds play devil’s advocate.  This is when regrets come home to roost. Why then not find some means of entertainment?  Horse racing and its corollary of providing fun and entertainment for many appears the only vitamin.  But there are those “dogmatic” individuals, who fail to fully comprehend that Sunday afternoons are the dog-end of the week. Your mouth tastes of dust and your stomach is mixed with gravy and juice.

Most people just want to get out or if they stay in, just sleep. Historically, those who claim to know say Trinidad and Tobago has allowed others to be leaders, and instead acted as paperweights, but now clearly is the time to move forward. should there  at all times be racing on weekends?  We must not continue to make a nationwide mess of this. The realists among us will say that next we will hear talk of Good Friday and Christmas Day racing, with Sunday morning broadcasts of religious programmes such as Ben Hur featuring hair-raising racing round the notorious tight Roman circuit, which has proved a popular favourite with many Christian backers, but not apparently with many others.

Sunday afternoons some will say need racing because if allowed to fester on the mind are times when regrets come home to roost (repeated for the unconscious) when as Cyril Conolly said ‘Bombs are made DeQuincy turned to opium and Kafka des-paired that Monday would never come. Many of us wish that were true, or that we could meet Kim Bassinger on the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway, then and only then will racing take a “backseat,” as probably will Kim eventually. In terms of recent racing, what we are witnessing is more of the same poor rides aided by poor tactics, some of which emanated from trainers and owners looking for long odds.  It is noticeable that even during all this guessing in local racing, the number of people at races continues to increase. If Sunday Racing is allowed to manifest itself in Trinidad and Tobago it will help to fill a void in our sporting community and also to allow the public a chance to have fun somewhere other than the beach.

In Guyana, bookmakers currently accept betting on Sunday racing from the United States and Europe. Is it that we as a people are so backward in our thinking that we cannot accept the need to change and improve? We need the administrators in the sport to take the bull by the horns and get Sunday racing to become a reality. Who knows — maybe even the general reporting on racing in the media can improve away from innuendoes and lies and deal with fact. Where there is Sunday racing, there may be hope for our suffering society. At least Sunday because of novelty would have better attendance than the first Saturday after Friday Lime Day. Don’t Dance around the questions, tell the truth. Please visit ww.cornelis-associates.com http://www.cornelis-associates.com for the best website management and change management.