Our Racing Secretary

Help him help us……………….I am just saying

It’s a miserable job. Paul our racing secretary writes races for owners and trainers every week for entry day. He deals with declarations. He deals with scratches. He assigns weights in handicap races that most no one ever agrees with. He scrounges for horses to make a race go. He deals with 6 horse fields and sometimes 5 or 4 horse fields. No one is ever happy with what he does but what he does is vital to any racing operation at any track in North America. Without a racing secretary racing cannot operate.

What about some of us dropping him a line.  How about every Monday all trainers send him an email asking him how the wife is, how he is doing and so forth.  Just a little friendly hello…….every Monday from all trainers at Hastings. “ Hi Paul how are you doing” And at the bottom of the email a little……….

PS.

“Paul these are the horses that I have ready to run for Saturday and Sunday and here is where I would like to run them. Or sorry Paul I have nothing this week but next week I will probably have several”.

Well I tell you this would make Paul so happy. His job just may become a shade easier. Come entry day on Wednesday or Sunday the board may fill up once in a while. Now I am not saying that this would be the great savior of racing at Hastings but it would go a long way to maybe getting 2 or more 10 horse fields every card and raising our field size from 7.15 to 7.50. No trainer would be bound to anything but it is sure worth trying in an environment of very short fields because of our horse situation. At least it may help in us becoming far more efficient in what we have to work with.

And maybe, just maybe, Paul and Raj would spring for a new racing office wide screen TV and HD camera and we could all now perhaps actually see everything that is on the board. I know that “I” am not getting any older but some of the other owners, trainers and agents are and appear to be squinting quite a bit these days when in the racing office Wednesday and Sunday mornings.
Future Shop has a sale on right now!!!!!

…………….I am just saying

Michael Robert Bye
Owner G&G Stable

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