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Indian Racing -downfall Started?

By Golimar | 10-Sep-2025

Indian horse racing lost it's sheen completely. In almost all racing clubs racing is of worst quality, more than 70% of the races are one sided affairs, odds are below 50 paisa in most of the races. Absolutely no competitive race cards are being framed, very boring and poor competition in most races, especially Kolkata. Punters lost interest in these kind of races. GST might kill racing in near future, and clubs by framing these kind of races where there is no competition in most of the races will bury the racing enthusiasts. Why don't all the clubs combine and frame quality racing thrice a week in different centers? 

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Mamma Miami said ...

12-Sep-2025

Indian trainers are scared of losing races thats why they are not entering horses.

If they enter horses without fear then we will see good old race cards of 8 horses or more and 8 races a day.

Pesi shroff is most scared of them because he has 200 horses under him and still few entries just to win championship. 

3 years before both sandesh and Trevor had 75 winners in same Mumbai season,  now they hardly touch 30.

Subzero said ...

12-Sep-2025

Three things leading to the downfall of Indian Racing.

1.  The Vacum created by the end of an Era of the Big The Guns Dr.MAM, Deepak Khaithan and Vijay Mallya.  Even though The Poonawalls are doing their best to plug The gaps. Alot of owners nowadays relying on gambling.

2.  Target Audience.....The Good Ole days....Marketing Teams need some new tools to attract more sponsors. Gone are the days where we saw Pune morning races...families coming in to enjoy an afternoon of races.  Now the first enclosures look like satta gambling dens.

3.  International recognitions.....need to be on a global stage for foreign influx....weather its our horse racing, football, hockey or any sport.  We cannot be successful playing around and happy in our own backyards.

Best

SubZero..Melbourne Cup 

 

 

 

@kshr399 said ...

12-Sep-2025

Hi guys better to start international races in all over turf clubs so punters will see competitive races and clubs and punters will get benifits 

Hall Of Fammer said ...

12-Sep-2025

@ASHOK DEB 

Attheraces.com     website their you can go through

Becket said ...

11-Sep-2025

Absolutely correct, risking for paisa not worth it. 

Inside Informer said ...

11-Sep-2025

Nowadays if anyone have to survive in horse racing one simple formula is "Back fav at high odds and lay at low odds or lay fav at low odds and back at high odds".

Ashok B Chawla said ...

11-Sep-2025

Dear Ashok Deb Chowdhury

AT THE RACES, is the very BEST website for all International Races, you will find Odds, Choices, Market Movers etc,  Choices from learnt persons. Check Out,   GOOD LUCK

Race Professor said ...

11-Sep-2025

@ Ashok Deb Chowdhury and If anyone playing on going South Africa (vaal ) race then play 8th race...Salt Lake City(6) shoot win and hammer on place though Fav good odds minimum 4/1 win and place not less than 80 paisa

Upsetter 

Gurella warfare 6/1 this can only try for win both are good horses in today's 8th race ...

 

Whatever decent returns I got from Mysore race hammering on this

Race Professor said ...

11-Sep-2025

@ashok deb Choudhary 

You can find in this website www.racingandsports.com.au it covers all international race card and results.....

Golimar said ...

11-Sep-2025

The on money favorite saga continued today albiet at a little better odds. Most Indian punters are leaning towards UK/Australia/Hong Kong races, very competitive races.

Ashok Deb Chowdhury said ...

11-Sep-2025

Dear friends 

How to get details record of foreign races....is there any portal like indiarace.com for foreign races...??

Race Professor said ...

11-Sep-2025

@ aniket exactly ...uk races are far better and Good potential horses minor Upsetter it will start from 15/1 goes till 50/1 and Fav 4/1 and very rare i see 70 paisa or 60 paisa 

Aniket Mehra said ...

11-Sep-2025

Absolutely right brother. Uk racing is much much better than indian racing. There you will get very good odds even for the strong horse. But in india even for the class 5 horse you will get 50 paisa. What local punters will play. Specially in calcutta you can see only 6 to 7 horse run in maximum races not even 8. You cant gor for a place bet also. But in u.k there are minimum 10 to 12 horses in every race. That is actual racing. Thats why i use to play u.k races instead of indian race. 

Iimblue said ...

11-Sep-2025

British racing fraternity unitedly protested because they were paying their taxes.

In India everyone & his brother ( save tote punters) found solace in half tax betting .Why anyone will care?.Now it looks like their own house is set on fire !

Precisely_that said ...

10-Sep-2025

Dear the standards of Indian racing have fallen. But somehow not for the reason you mentioned. 50/60 paise horses make it a one horse affair not because competition has reduced. The reason is somewhere quality of horses in India has been decreasing. There are no more horses which run 15/20 group races as they used to 25/30 years back. The track quality isn't the same either. 

There is interview of legendary trainer R.R. Byramji on YouTube. Watch it. The legend had predicted these standards 12 years back. 

Godzilla said ...

10-Sep-2025

Well said Golimar. Absolutely no interest in playing on Calcutta Colts day. Trevor completed his formalities and left for Mysore. One can see empty stands at Calcutta at so called Classic day.

While Calcutta is sinking despite Darshahs help in bringing his horses from South, Chennai is left with no future. The only sponsrs in Pune are the Poonawallas, Dhunji Saheb and Shapoorjis. 

Only Centres which are thriving are Hyderabad and to some extent Bangalore.

Curtains slowly falling on all Centres unless another Wadhwan type owner emerges.

Golimar said ...

10-Sep-2025

@Skanda, the subject is about competitiveness of the races being framed.

Skanda said ...

10-Sep-2025

Now there is a problem even if favorites win

Golimar said ...

10-Sep-2025

Just saw an article, the UK government is having a proposal to raise the tax from 15% to 21%, and the while British racing authorities jockeys trainers everyone called for protests and cancelled today's races.

Now compare these guys with our racing authorities, Don't know if they are having any discussion with the government of India, no information in this regard.