(Jamma) Enrico Tuci of the Italian Equestrian Entrepreneurs once again thunders against the non-redistribution of entries to prize winning horses which he defines as 'yet another hoax against the Owners'.
“Try to imagine – declared Tuci – how much money was paid by the Italian stables to enter their horses in ordinary races and, above all, in the Grand Prix. Entry money should, of course, be redistributed immediately to the prize winning horses but this has not happened for many months.
The problem arose when the Ministry abolished the delegation to the racing companies and they no longer had the possibility to offset expenses, prizes and registrations and therefore who knows when the owners will see their money again!
When the Ministry removed the delegation, it should have thought about how the accounting items that also concerned the return of registrations should have been regulated, but clearly, it did not.
At this point it is necessary that it be clarified to the Owners who have this credit, what is the procedure to apply to collect it and certainly the Owners will have to claim it and, probably, issue injunctions.
When in the next few months the Teams will receive the 2012 prizes through the Clubs, it will also be advisable for the compensations to be carried out on a staggered basis without charging all the costs on a single month's instalment. The question of the non-redistribution of entry fees becomes macroscopic and very serious when we refer to the horses placed in the Grand Prix.
We can assure you that these have not received a cent. The first serious mistake, in my opinion, is made by the companies that allow some teams to participate in the Grands Prix without paying the registration fee. At this point we will have two categories of horses, that of smart and that of chickens.
The two categories cease to be different when, after the Grand Prix has been held, they realize that both will receive absolutely nothing and the money from the entries (for example the 180.000 Euros from the last Italian Trot Derby, 36 participants to Euro 5.000) have inexplicably remained partly in the Casse di Assi and partly in the Casse of the Tor di Valle racecourse from which I believe, indeed I am sure, it will not be easy to recover them. In fact, the top three finishers had to issue an injunction to win back what, in my opinion, should have been delivered to them an hour after the race, but after almost a year nothing has been paid.
Without naming names, we can mention a classic multi-placed horse that is still waiting to recover the proceeds of the entries also from the Milan, Turin, Treviso and Follonica racetracks for a total of Euro 65.000.
We sincerely hope that even this umpteenth absurd lack will be eliminated as soon as possible by those in charge (ie by whom?) in the common interest of all owners".
