How long before the u-turn this time

[CarryOnKatie]

I like the seventh race on the card. I know when I used to go with my parents or my in-laws (who would not normally be interested in racing), they always wanted to leave after the penultimate race to "beat the traffic".

[Gingertipster]

I like the seventh race on the card. I know when I used to go with my parents or my in-laws (who would not normally be interested in racing), they always wanted to leave after the penultimate race to "beat the traffic".

Always worth considering, particularly if it’s a Classs 5 or 6 handicap (rubbish race). Or watch it from a Grandstand nearest to the car park.

Value Is Everything

[Glenn]

Well I never

THEY have had a word in Ruth Quinn’s shell and 97 twilight fixtues will now be saved, with around 10k in levy board prize money per fixture.

Don’t all cheer at once.

Apparently, The Rabble have now decided that these figures are definitely levy positive. This is strange, as I was under the impression they didn’t have the requisite data to do the analysis.

[Cav]

Given the courses put the square root of f*uk all into prizemoney for these meetings thats um…10 grand a meeting then…10 grand prizemoney divided over 6 or 7 races.

A testament to the leadership of Coward and Roy, hope their proud.

Culhane must be licking his lips.

[robert99]

Paul Dixon is already in the Rabble’s other ear:

http://www.racehorseowners.net/presidents_blog.html

Always a bit bizarre that Racehorse Owners want others to further fund their hobby. Like true socialists they also want Government to close perceived loopholes so that a bizarre levy system that no other sports requires has income maximised for their benefit from others who derive no monetary benefit.

Then they want even more from the "media rights" that the punter is further paying some annual £60-70M for. Even then they are upset that racecourses need to balance their books rather than pay even more in prizemoney. Of course BHA will be expected to pander to their every word but go on refusing to represent the requirements of the punter paying the lion share for racing’s funding and helping out other people to own and race horses.

When we hear from the ROA how they intend to run their affairs in a business like manner that does not require ever more funding from the punter then we might listen more attentively. After all, even Government Departments are being asked for 40% budget cuts these days.

[Anonymous]

I thoroughly agree with

Robert99

‘s castigation of the ROA. For most people £2000 is still a large amount of money, and to complain that this is "peanuts" as 1st prize for a Class 6 rag-fest seems to be both tasteless and untrue.

If prize money were to be reduced from its current general levels, with comparatively more being given to pattern racing (very much the French way of doing things) then that should help to (a) bring yearling sales costs down to sensible levels; and (b) put pressure on the satellite industries to reduce their costs and profits in line with the current economic climate.

Vets, for example, treat Racing as a cash cow to fund their lavish pension plans whilst earning more than Ministers of the Crown meanwhile. This, I feel, is not right.

[indocine]

Neg 140 would be great news, great news indeed.

All the non owning punters can now handwring for yet another year about the level of prize money they won’t be winning.

[runandskip]

its amazing that we will have to wait until the end of september to see next years fixture list,what do the wooden tops at the bha do all day?
way its going next years racing diarys will have nothing in them

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