To all our CTHS members, we are doing our level best to support everyone in trying times and under incredible budget constraints. We would really appreciate help from our members to have our voice clearly heard amongst the racing stakeholders, of Hastings Management, HBPA, and TOBA . Please forward e -mails to us ( cthsbc@cthsbc.org ) stating your concerns, which we can forward to the parties that aren’t always hearing us. As a group we believe we are more involved then any other stakeholder, due to the long-term commitment of producing racehorses for our industry, currently 76% of the horse population that make Hastings viable.
We have heard plenty of understandable complaints regarding the loss, for this year, of the BC Cup day two-year-old races for BC-breds. We did not want this to happen.
We would love to see BC Cup day restricted to BC-breds the way it was conceived originally.
Unfortunately reductions in racing days, field sizes, stakes scheduling and stake money make it very challenging for everyone concerned.
We fought to keep at least one race restricted to BC-bred horses in each age group.
In negotiations we kept that by giving up a restricted two-year-old race, knowing that our breeders still have at least the Futurities as a restricted race and where applicable the sales stakes in what is only a 4 stake race calendar for two-year-olds. Next year will be different again!
All our negotiations look at the big picture, keeping racing going at Hastings, while protecting and supporting the breeders of BC.
