1986, Gyros, fav, rears up in pens, cuts himself, vet instructs jock to race horse after jock raises concerns, fav finishes last, punters lose money in cold blood, racing's reputation takes a knock, owner has promising young horse damaged, safi complains straight after race to chief stipe, asks for injured horse to be declared "non-runner" and refund punters, chief stipe retorts "shut up or you will be thrown off racecourse", Safi forms SARGA South African Racegoers Association, SARGA try improve the lot of racegoers, Jockey Club take hard line approach against SARGA and Safi, starter and chief stipe get promoted, Safi and racing journalist Peter Duffield face George Morrison general manager of jockey club and Colin Dunn head of TAB on open discussion on SABC news program NETWORK, Safi and Duffield claim these type of harmful actions are damaging the public perception of horseracing and are leading to racing's downfall, many more unchecked actions over time leads to mass exodus of punter’s from horseracing, many more incompetent officials are given raises and promotions, 2011 - 25 years later it’s still going on, "victim" SA Horseracing
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