Personal agendas, personal interests and personal game plans. This has stopped the Bangalore Turf Club (BTC) to get to the next level, but who cares. The administrators of the game think that they are bigger than the sport and so too some professionals and a couple of high-flying owners. Each time a discussion is held to help provide a solution to a issue in the interest of sport, the members of KROA, KTA and management committee of the club have failed to unanimously arrive at a solution and that's simply because no individual is willing to shun the ego and put on a fair thinking cap in an effort to provide the right direction and put the sport on the high road. This is sad. And this is exactly how the cookie crumbles at BTC. 

On Wednesday, it was heartening to learn that the two head honchos of BTC and the Mysore Race Club (MRC) had agreed and drawn out a neat plan to conduct the first two day's of the winter season on Friday, Nov 18 and Saturday, Nov 26 at Mysuru. 24 hours later, BTC do a complete U-turn and dash of a letter to the MRC stating that following a discussion with representatives of the KROA and KTA, wherein they expressed their inability to participate in the two day meet, BTC will not be able to sponsor any of the eight races, which they had agreed to do on the two scheduled days. It is not that MRC was looking to BTC to sponsor their 12-day winter programme nor MRC wanted a change in their 12-day winter schedule. It is BTC, who approached MRC to accommodate four races for Bengaluru-based horses and after the Stewards of the MRC in the interest of the sport agreed to provide the desired platform, BTC shockingly pulled out of the deal. 

Why and how did the decision makers of the BTC approach MRC with a two-day race plan without gaining a green signal from KTA and KROA defies logic. BTC had made it clear on Wednesday that the members of KROA and KTA were willing to compete in the two-day affair at Mysuru. Well if this is true what went wrong on the next day. Well it is clear that a couple of things have gone horribly wrong and the little bird sitting on top of the big tree was heard chirping that the trust element is missing at the BTC premises. 

BTC chairman Shivkumar Kheny and his new team in their effort to get started and to provide the trainers the desired lead-up races going into the classics had worked out a good deal with the MRC management committee spearheaded by Y B Ganesh. And when everything looked good and promising, a couple of personal agendas and selfish game plans nullified the initiative and the trainers, owners and administrators will now need to wait till a portion of the track which is not ready, is back in ship-shape condition. And that will only happen next month, confirmed a horticulture expert.