Trainer fed up with poor treatment of stable area
Veteran racehorse trainer Joseph Thomas is very fed up with the Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited (SVREL) over their poor treatment of his stable area, which he says is flooded out whenever rain falls.
Thomas’s stable, which is located at the top paddock at the Caymanas Park, is now flooded with water following heavy rain over the weekend.
He says that he has spoken to the authorities on several occasions about this, but nothing has been done about the matter.
“This can’t be good for no human being health or anything at all, and I have spoken to them a lot of times about it, and I stopped talking now,” said a very upset Thomas.
“I am not into any more talking; if they don’t want to come and fix, it is their business. I am just keeping myself healthy and all right,” he said.
“It is becoming a [mosquito] breeding site and this is going to make the third time I am talking about it,” Thomas noted.
When STAR Sports visited the area yesterday, there was a large pool of water which was settled between Thomas’s and trainer Welsh Soutar’s stable. There was also a large pile of garbage seen in front of both stables.
Thomas outlined that he has spoken to the property manager, Aldien Anderson, about the situation, but he has failed to address the issue.
“I spoke to the property manager about it because every time rain falls, is this happens. It is like a little pound, and so they need to come get something to drain away the water so that when rain falls it doesn’t settle like this,” Thomas said.
“You see it there now, it will be this weekend before this dry up, and sometime we have to throw black oil into it to keep away the mosquitoes,” he said. “They know about it and so they have to come and do something about it, because this can’t be good for human being’s health.”
However, when contacted, Lorna Gooden, general manager of SVREL, said she is unaware of the issue.