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President : Mel Snow
email:
Mel Snow
Secretary / Treasurer
Bryant P. McAfee
phone.604.647.2211
fax.604.254.6677
email: Bryant McAfee
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Racing Office
(604) 255-8823
Racing Office
Fax: (604)
251-0428
Racing Office Hours
Non-Race Days:
Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday
7:00 am to 3:00 pm.
Race Days:
Saturday
Sunday and Holidays
7:00 am to last race.
Horsemen’s
Bookkeeper
The Bookkeeper’s
office
is
located in the
racing
office.The hours
of
business on race
days
are:1 hour prior
to 1st
race to
penultimate
race post.
Non race
days call
(604) 251-0426
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Welcome to the 2008 Racing Season
Opening Day
April 26, 2008
If you
are licensed by GPEB as an owner or trainer of one or
more
"thoroughbred race horses", you are automatically a
member
of The H.B.P.A. of B.C., unless you choose to negate that
automatic membership.
The H.B.P.A. of B.C. has been in existence since the 1940’s,
initially as an unincorporated body and then, since March,
1987,
as a body incorporated in British Columbia under its
Society Act.
The
H.B.P.A. Association is governed by a board of directors
consisting of
a president/director who is elected by the general
membership together with ten additional directors, five of
whom are licensed
as
owners (and who are not also licensed
as trainers) and five of whom are licensed as trainers.
Elections take place every three years and those who are
elected serve as unpaid volunteers.
The officers of the
Association consist of the president, two
vice-presidents
(one owner and one trainer) and an administrative officer
who is appointed by the board of directors to a paid
position as secretary-treasurer.
The H.B.P.A. of B.C. retains 2% of purses paid at Hastings
Racecourse as it’s main source of revenue.
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Notice!
March 7, 2008
This
document is an overview as a result of the
Horsemen’s meeting with Hastings Racing Management
in the George Royal Room, February 27, 2008.
►It
was emphasized that each participant involved in the
movement of horses be diligent in their role in
completing In and Out Slips. This will create a firm
recording of accurate data to maintain horse
movement and population.
►Van
Drivers are required to provide names of horses
shipped to
Hastings
on their vans. If they don’t know some of the
horses’ names they need, either to provide dam’s
name or have trainer contact: the Race Office during
office hours or
Lorne Mitchell
@604-377-4189 after office hours.
►The
three and one half furlong races maximum field size
will increase to nine. Also we will be monitoring
trainers that overuse these races for individual
horses. At the meeting it was announced that horses
would be limited to three starts at this distance,
but after discussion it was decided that it is
management’s responsibility to control and monitor
and prevent abuse.
►Barn
Passes are available to all trainers. This procedure
was tested during the PNE in 2007 and we are taking
it a step further in issuing these passes for each
licensed trainer.
►It
is imperative that vehicles parked inside the stable
area NOT impede or block maintenance crews, manure
removal or in any way affect schedules of training.
Security will be logging all vehicles in and out of
the site.
►Hastings
Security will have access to a golf cart for night
patrol. This should alleviate concerns about noise
during sleep time for the horses.
►The
laundry Room on the Wall (Barn H) above Barn K will
be operational as a laundry room by March 31.
►Paddock
Schooling Hours: 5.00 am. until 12.00 noon.
►Gate
Schooling Hours: 7.00am – 9.30am Tuesday to Sunday as
April 01
►Miller
Gate will be open race days from 10.00 a.m. until
6.30 p.m.
From: Team
Racing
:Joe Gray
and Lorne Mitchell
 Note new training hours as of April 01,
2008
Training hour changes
Monday and Tuesday
5:00am-10:00am
Break 7:30am-8:00am
Wednesday to
Sunday
5:00am-10:30am
Break one 6:30am-7:00am
Break two 8:30am-9:00am
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