Qualification criteria for horses to run in races

How many races must a horse be allowed to run before being ineligible to run.....Game Plan in the 1st at the Vaal yesterday from Maree stable has run 49 times for zero places.....is this a record....

How can a trainer allow this to the owner, or has the owner got so much money that he don't care.

We have a thread on the site where we discuss horses with biggest losing streak was trying to search the name was Quin??? Something worth a read if you can find it

Quixall Crossett

I would like to support this thread.

I absolutely do not support restrictions like those supported by Eudey for example, but it is high time that the performances of some horses might indicate that they are done.

It is an embarrassment to all concerned, and after a while it is impossible to deny that it has crossed over to cruelty.

How this has evaded discussion, and worse, evaded those whose job it is to manage this type of thing in now inexcusable.

Without stepping of on the rights of people to partake in any sport the way they think fit, the stewards of the sport should propose reasonable rules that we can all agree on which basically agrees on when enough is enough.

What can we do to motivate this?

www.africanbettingclan.com/index.php/kun...liam?start=20#448604

Agree with all the comments, perhaps it should be applied to punters as well, will save us a heap of money.

Gold Onyx will be a 9yr old contesting a Grade 1 and who knows when last the horse ran a place.....

It must be more cruel to run winners than it is to run losers. Losers, like Game Plan are slackened off at the end of a race.

To be fair, Gold Onyx beat Balance Sheet, Puntas Arenas and Night Shadow in his last three runs and 7 runs ago was 2nd in Gr2 earning R80,000.