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  • March 24, 2009 at 19:09 #218176
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    Paul Haigh, who made an acrimonious departure from the Racing Post after 23 years as a senior writer last week, will smile at the latest leak of bookmaker-funded largesse at the Post’s HQ in Canary Wharf. Haigh claimed that the Post was effectively in the control of bookmakers, a view that editor Bruce Millington described as "absurd". Haigh would have enjoyed an email exchange between the Post’s head of news, Tony Smurthwaite, and Victor Chandler’s head of PR. It revealed that the paper had taken delivery of "12 bottles of fantastic French wine". "It has made a lot of people very happy – and it hasn’t been drunk yet," Smurthwaite said.

    For those who enjoy coincidence bets, Trap 4 in tonight’s

    williamhill.com

    Pall Mall Final at Oxford dogs (9.45) is surely worth a nibble.

    If you can get on, of course.

    March 25, 2009 at 00:54 #218228
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    Pity it was Tony. He’s one of the good guys.

    March 25, 2009 at 03:01 #218245
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    By Jonathan Kay10.15PM 24 MAR 2009

    DRINK UP ZORRO (2-1F) justified strong off- and on-course support when seeing off all challengers to land the £8,000 williamhill.com Pall Mall over 450m at Oxford.

    I love it when a plan comes together.

    March 26, 2009 at 05:07 #218425
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    follow-up on guardian unlimited:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/ma … acing-post

    one does wonder how the RP’s finances have gone since October 2007:

    Trinity Mirror figures for its last two complete years of ownership, 2005 and 2006, indicated 12 month revenues in each case for the RP and its 23 related papers and websites, of GBP 50m with profit margins of 34 per cent (2005) and 30 per cent (2006).

    Trinity’s figures for its 9 months of ownership in 2007 indicated similar annualised revenues of GBP 50m.

    The proportion of advertising income to circulation income was:
    (2005) 14m to 32m
    (2006) 13m to 31m

    These figures were on the back of daily circulation of:
    (2005) 75,908
    (2006) 71,739.
    using ABC July-December figures.

    http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/docs/tmco … 1ED9B0.pdf

    (page 20 of the pdf)

    Most recently, albeit for an admittedly snowy period from 26 Jan to 22 Feb 2009, circulation figures had plunged to just over 55,000.

    http://www.abc.org.uk/cgi-bin/gen5?runp … 2049028554

    if that 55:71 proportion was to be annualised…….

    best regards

    wit

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