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A CRUEL HUMAN TRAGEDY
PAUSE FOR THOUGHT
“Courses having
their cake and eating proceeds.”
Colin Russell brings news:
Published in Racing on Tuesday July 21, 2015 Page 11.
“Which is the most influential body
in racing: the government (BHA), the major bookmakers or the Horsemen’s Group?
The answer, none of them – it’s the racecourses. The racecourses wield more
power than any and the worrying thing is so often it’s in their own interests
and not for racing as a whole.
“Racecourses are our exchequer. They
hold the purse strings because just about all monies that come into racing from
outside sources are channelled through them.
“Consider it, Racecourses receive
money from the Levy Board as grants, mainly for prize-money; money from media
rights; gate money; sponsorship money; money from owners through entries and
declarations; money from the Tote; money from the bookmakers and money from
catering rights. As Harold Macmillan almost told the nation nearly 60 years ago, ‘they’ve never had it so good’
.
“In addition to all those revenue
streams, the jewel in their crown – at present anyway – are their fixtures.
“Since 2004 racecourses have
effectively owned 1,200 of the yearly dose of 1,400 – plus fixtures and where
you have a fixture you have money. They own the ‘historic’ fixtures, ones
established before 2004, and although each track effectively has its own
meetings, if it is part of a group like Arena Racing Company, then the group owns
them.
“That’s how this month’s ‘saturation
Saturday’ came about when Darley July Cup was moved so it clashed with John
Smith’s Cup day. Newmarket didn’t have a future that day, but Nottingham did
and Jockey Club Racecourses run both. So we now have Newmarket alongside Ascot,
Chester, and York. Whatever anguish that concentration of meetings caused there
is nothing anyone can do about it – the racecourses rule supreme.
“Every year since Newmarket barged
in on that particular Saturday the debate has raged about how bad the situation
has been for racing. The bookmakers have produced statistics showing it isn’t
in racing’s best interests, but just when we thought common sense was going to
prevail and it might be moved to it’s traditional slot on Thursday, JCR and Newmarket
backtracked, so it looks as though we’ll have the same fixture conglomeration for
the foreseeable future.
“Racecourse power is why we get
other silly clashes such as Kempton and Lingfield racing on the same day.
Southwell and Nottingham is another example – one owned by Arc, the other by
JCR. They are 15.6 miles apart and last month raced on the same day.
“Punters think it is stupid,
horsemen think its stupid, but the racecourses and its association, the RCA,
don’t seem to care.
“They seem to act like spoilt kids –
what is theirs is theirs and they don’t worry about how it effects anyone else.
“The way they treat their on-course
bookmakers is another example. With betting exchanges and phone betting,
turnover on course is really suffering. So what do racecourses do? The put up
their charges for bookmakers or at least
have the option to do so. Whereas the ceiling for a daily betting permit
used to be five times the admission price of the relevant enclosure, now it can
be up to ten times the price.
“One of the good deeds initiated by
Arc in order to prevent any accusations of their clientele being ripped –off was to insist all on-course
bookmakers bet to standard terms. No problem there then.
“But on the other hand, the three
courses who have no Tote and run their own betting systems pay ten percent less
than SP without actually making it clear. It seems there is one rule for
bookmakers and another for racecourses.
“On the plus side, however, those
three courses – Ripon, Chester, and Bangor – are well to the fore in the
prize-money stakes but, despite the multi-revenue streams other tracks have, at their disposal, they seem to try to get
away with paying out as little as they can get away with.
“Any thoughts new BHA chief executive
Nick Rust might try to rein in the racecourses dissipated over the Newcastle
affair. It seems the coursewill be transformed into the north’s all-weather
venue, not because it is the best or most suitable – it is probably one of the
least suitable – but because Arc considered
that it was in its best interest to do it.
“Rust appeared to endorse Arc’s
actions and made no mention of the main controversy surrounding the scheme, the
destruction of the turf track. When he added he thought attendances would
increase, it makes you wonder how many all-weather meetings he has attended.
“There is a move afoot for a formal
tripartite agreement between the government (BHA), Horsemen’s Group and the
racecourses for running racing. It’s hardly surprising the RCA, representing
the racecourses, is dragging its feet. It’s like trying to get David Cameron to
share government with Labour and the Scottish Nationalists when he has no need
to. He at least has a mandate; the racecourses and the RCA do not. “
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