A nice advert in the post about Jenny & Mark Pitman's new launched Racing Club but is it me or is it just a con.
Check out the following terms and conditions:
A) The Jenny & Mark Pitman Racing Club (“the Club”) offers each member an opportunity to follow all of the horses owned or leased by the Club, share in the Club’s colours and enjoy certain benefits during the membership period mentioned herein.
B) This membership offers entertainment and is not an investment opportunity.
C) Membership is effective for a full 12 month period from the date of joining.
D) There is no commitment to remain a Member after the expiry of the membership period.
E) The Member will not be subject to any additional requests for payments towards the training fees over and above their annual membership fee.
F) Any monies accrued will be re-invested into the Club.
G) Hospitality events at race meetings and other venues plus our Annual dinner will be charged at commercial rates and advised in advance.
H) We will endeavour to obtain discounts at as many race meetings as possible and these will be listed on our website.
I) A telephone information line (not premium rate) will keep Members up-to-date on race days with predictions from Jenny, Mark and our Trainers, this information is for Members only.
J) All decisions relating to the horses, trainers, admin and running of the Club will be decided by the management of the Club.
K) Members must be aged 18 years or over.
L) All horses are owned by the Club and the Member does not have any legal or equitable title to any of these horses.
M) Members are permitted, under British Horseracing Authority rules, to back and lay horses on betting exchanges and with bookmakers.
N) The Jenny and Mark Pitman Racing Club is the trading name for Mark Pitman Racing Limited (Company No: 6472440).
O) For Health & Safety reasons, flash photography is not permitted at any of the racing yards during stable visits.
P) These terms and conditions have been submitted to the BHA (British Horseracing Authority) for Code of Best Practice compliance guidance and may be updated from time to time.
Q) All benefits to the Member are for the Member’s use only and may not be leased, sold, form part of a loan, or offered as security to any third parties.
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So the bottom line is you pay them £195, so they can run a horse which you own no part of, receive no prize money if it wins, have to pay more money to watch it run, then pay again to go on the organised hospitality days, have the option to join a ballot system to go to a sale (a free public place), and visits to the yard are selelcted by them and you get to go on a set date. Oh and that you must wait for them to send updates and you can't ring them.
finally a nice 08712 phone number to ring to find out if a horse is fancied, charging 10 - 12p a minute, 25 - 35p a minute from a mobile.
So if you pay all these hidden extras, what does you £195 go towards? I know, so Jenny and Mark can have horses in training for free.
This really looks a proper con to me, but best still is what a tacky website.
http://jennyandmarkpitmanracingclub.com/index.html
I give this a year max, surely people wont buy into a ridiculous club like this, also I got someone to make an enquirey about going to join the club and going to Ascot on Saturday and the quote to go to their hospitality was a good few hundred on top.
Check out the following terms and conditions:
A) The Jenny & Mark Pitman Racing Club (“the Club”) offers each member an opportunity to follow all of the horses owned or leased by the Club, share in the Club’s colours and enjoy certain benefits during the membership period mentioned herein.
B) This membership offers entertainment and is not an investment opportunity.
C) Membership is effective for a full 12 month period from the date of joining.
D) There is no commitment to remain a Member after the expiry of the membership period.
E) The Member will not be subject to any additional requests for payments towards the training fees over and above their annual membership fee.
F) Any monies accrued will be re-invested into the Club.
G) Hospitality events at race meetings and other venues plus our Annual dinner will be charged at commercial rates and advised in advance.
H) We will endeavour to obtain discounts at as many race meetings as possible and these will be listed on our website.
I) A telephone information line (not premium rate) will keep Members up-to-date on race days with predictions from Jenny, Mark and our Trainers, this information is for Members only.
J) All decisions relating to the horses, trainers, admin and running of the Club will be decided by the management of the Club.
K) Members must be aged 18 years or over.
L) All horses are owned by the Club and the Member does not have any legal or equitable title to any of these horses.
M) Members are permitted, under British Horseracing Authority rules, to back and lay horses on betting exchanges and with bookmakers.
N) The Jenny and Mark Pitman Racing Club is the trading name for Mark Pitman Racing Limited (Company No: 6472440).
O) For Health & Safety reasons, flash photography is not permitted at any of the racing yards during stable visits.
P) These terms and conditions have been submitted to the BHA (British Horseracing Authority) for Code of Best Practice compliance guidance and may be updated from time to time.
Q) All benefits to the Member are for the Member’s use only and may not be leased, sold, form part of a loan, or offered as security to any third parties.
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So the bottom line is you pay them £195, so they can run a horse which you own no part of, receive no prize money if it wins, have to pay more money to watch it run, then pay again to go on the organised hospitality days, have the option to join a ballot system to go to a sale (a free public place), and visits to the yard are selelcted by them and you get to go on a set date. Oh and that you must wait for them to send updates and you can't ring them.
finally a nice 08712 phone number to ring to find out if a horse is fancied, charging 10 - 12p a minute, 25 - 35p a minute from a mobile.
So if you pay all these hidden extras, what does you £195 go towards? I know, so Jenny and Mark can have horses in training for free.
This really looks a proper con to me, but best still is what a tacky website.
http://jennyandmarkpitmanracingclub.com/index.html
I give this a year max, surely people wont buy into a ridiculous club like this, also I got someone to make an enquirey about going to join the club and going to Ascot on Saturday and the quote to go to their hospitality was a good few hundred on top.
