July Company lucky draws...

We use to do this every year at work but sadly it has fallen away the last few years as the once a year July punters i have spoken to said there is a lack of media coverage on the events... Has this been the case with anyone else??

yip...the interest has gone....

Easy to do a sweepstake and pull names and numbers out a hat.. print this oot

Hibs, my point is there is no build up to this event anymore, the man on the street just doesn't have any knowledge that its July day next weekend...

gregbucks Wrote:

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> We use to do this every year at work but sadly it
> has fallen away the last few years as the once a
> year July punters i have spoken to said there is a
> lack of media coverage on the events... Has this
> been the case with anyone else??


The Benoni Times did a story on the July this week - I must say I was shocked to see it as it was unexpected - Perhaps next year they will call Keith Ho and they can advertise there or any restaurants/ Schools/Clubs having a July Day can become involved - That is the only way it will regain the public interest that it used to have.

and even the sards don't always stop by either....

No stars of the show. The field is really ordinary. Perhaps a pocket power will reignite interest.
But I think unhappy owners are walking and the standard of our horses is waning

gregbucks Wrote:

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> Hibs, my point is there is no build up to this
> event anymore, the man on the street just doesn't
> have any knowledge that its July day next
> weekend...

maybe because all the good racing is shown from UK . The July can never live up to the Derby and Royal Ascot and the Dubai meeting

chicken 'n chips Wrote:

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> gregbucks Wrote:
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> > Hibs, my point is there is no build up to this
> > event anymore, the man on the street just
> doesn't
> > have any knowledge that its July day next
> > weekend...
>
> maybe because all the good racing is shown from UK
> . The July can never live up to the Derby and
> Royal Ascot and the Dubai meeting

Hoender,99% of the sa population view horse racing as a corrupt sport,we dnt have a culture of equine athletes here,a bet is a bet,be it pocket power or some crap kzn 60 mr horse

you right Soodum. When I lived n SA i was frowned upon by my friends for having a bet, yet in the UK its just a normal thing to do and nobody looks down on you, in fact people who dont usually bet on hearing that you are having a bet would ask for a tip or give you a fiver to play for them. If the Queen can have a bet then anyone can.

Hoender,kzn has the biggest betting population,but its a dying population of old timers

I can tell you from personal experience that in the indian community(which are gold circles biggest customer base),the families of punters hate horse racing,but the irony is that the very same wives who kick their husbands balls in for punting horses happily go to suncoast and put the bread money into slots

racing is socially unexcepted in the UK aswell,even the national doesn`t attract the punters