Gordon Elliott ex trainer

Baldrick wrote: I think rugby league gets an average attendance of 8,000 at its matches and county cricket average attendance is anything between 2000 and 6000 depending on the county.

9fingers wrote: Baldrick wrote: if I did a survey of my mates I would say f**k all of them have any interest in horse racing.   I wouldn’t say that survey would take long

Edited by Baldrick - 06 Mar 2021 at 5:28am

Rugby League certainly doesn't get adequate media representation because it is popular in the lands that time forgot. Cricket has a strange place in the English psyche though. It is a sport associated with poshos, but most people here have some affinity to it, in a way that no other sport has. I don't think I have heard someone who identifies as English be derogatory about the game, yet you will regularly hear people complain about every sport that isn't their preference. My partner, who had no interest in sport, or hadn't anyway, will often check how England is doing in the cricket. She wouldn't want to sit down and watch it, but would keep an eye out.

pre Madonna wrote: SeanyL wrote: MayoMark wrote: Baldrick wrote: if I did a survey of my mates I would say f**k all of them have any interest in horse racing.   I agree that perhaps the leading story is over the top, but I don't agree that it is blown out of proportion.  And I don't believe that you need an interest in horse racing either. An enormous amount of tax payers money goes into it and I think therefor this story is in the public interest. I have no real time for it at all to be honest.  The Government and Irish people get an absolutely fantastic return from the money they invest in horse racing each year, as the below Deloitte report shows.    https://www.hri.ie/uploadedFiles/HRI-Corporate/HRI_Corporate/Press_Office/Economic_Impact/HRI%20Report.pdf The problem with solely economic data on this is that it doesn't cover the social fallout from the gambling industry reliant on horse-racing. I am not anti-gambling, although like many other aspects of society I don't like where it has gone, and have no major issue with horseracing as long as I don't have to endure anyone involved in it; but I think this needs more than just raw figures.

If you look at france and a few other countries they tax betting more and that money goes back into the industry 

One of Niall Quinn’s arguments for greater funding for football is the amount of tax it generates from gambling, which as we have seen abound is one of the arguments for funding horse racing.  

A point I should have made yesterday is the coverage in relation to this case and the goings on at Davy’s.  

Has Rob James been punished yet?

Borussia wrote: MayoMark wrote: I think there's little doubt that horse racing wouldn't exist without the gambling element. I'm not sure that it being subsidised by the taxpayer is a very good thing. I'm not particularly comfortable with it Not sure if the point has been made here but the subsidy that racing gets from the government comes from betting generated from racing. And studies show that the return received from this investment is huge.  EDIT: I see this has been mentioned above.