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From today’s Racing Post:
[i:1xqqn9f4]”The deals [with foreign broadcasters] mean that the commitment … to guarantee an annual minimum sum of £400,000 for racing, which began last year is expected to be exceeded in 2009…
…As in the case of Australia, this deal with Turkey would not have gone ahead without 48-hour declarations.
They wouldn’t have entertained the idea under a smaller timescale, because of the way information is disseminated to punters. While Italy remains the biggest customer for UK racing, the examples of Australia and Turkey show we are exploiting markets we knew we couldn’t get into without 48-hour declarations.”[/i:1xqqn9f4]
I await the riposte from Mark Johnston, hopefully on some basis other than that 48-hour declarations are bad because they are an inconvenience to Mark Johnston.
400k is peanuts.
It is 1.1k per day.
That is less than £100 per race.
It is probably somewhere in the region of £50-£60 per race.
However, I don’t know the context: it might be a total of 400k, or it may be an additional £400k
Can you believe anything Matthew Imi says? The guy went into hiding when "tackled" about the artificial time delay on ATR pictures.
Can’t see what benefit there is for owners and punters here with 48 hour decs, just loads more non runners. Much preferred 24 hours.
Maybe they should tell Turkey they should disseminate information to punters quicker if they want to bet on our racing, there really is no excuse in this day and age.
Prize money is still pathetic whatever.
Does the £400k take into acoount the levy lost by punters backing all the non runners or betting on other sports through the uncertainty of not knowing what’s running, we could even be down on the deal.While not negligible – I wouldn’t mind £400k; the sum could just about sponsor Kempton for the entire Flat season – it does invite that sort of response, which is likely to be coming from the usual sources.
Can you believe anything Matthew Imi says? The guy went into hiding when "tackled" about the artificial time delay on ATR pictures.
I take anything he says with a large pinch of salt. When "tackled" by me about the artificial delay on ATR pictures, he refused to go on the record with remarks about whether viewers of ATR even knew there was a time delay.
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