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Issue Summary

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

OHHA Fragmentation 

The fragmentation of Ontario Harness Horse Association only serves to weaken the horsemen's lobby, make track negotiations difficult, and reduce the value we recieve from the available benefits packages.  We also need to allow out of province membership.

People have far to great an expectation for OHHA.  Sudbury and Ottawa fell off line.  Both tracks are essentially buying
race dates.  Sudbury horsemen had to pay the track to qualify. They were
paying the track $25,000 per race card to hold the races out of their purse
account.  In Ottawa, they are only taking 25% of the handle for the extra
race dates.  From previous figures, in about 5 years the horsemen will have
given up about $8 million total(what I was told..didn't check the math).
OHHA should be a voice for the horsemen to those in power.

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