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Steve Woolman. retweeted
Dear @BHAHorseracing,
You rushed to defend the fruit machine. Racing never needed it.
Shops: down a third, 9,000 to 5,825.
Levy: up, £65m to £108m.
Punters get restricted, closed, funds locked and an auto-email is all you get.
We ARE your customers. Who are you working for? #OpenLetter #HorseRacing #Budget2026 @Macbet1972 @AtTheRaces
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Steve Woolman. retweeted
🗣️I tell you what Ed, nobody will be more gutted in that weighing room at Listowel than Niall McCullagh, nobody.
Steve Woolman. retweeted
It would seem that Matt Shoutman is always very vocal about where tax comes from, apart from when it comes to paying his own.
Steve Woolman. retweeted
“It is absurd that Trip Advisor would seek to demonise racing- Britain’s second most popular spectator sport. They should ditch the puerile virtue signalling, talk to actual experts on animal welfare within racing and drop the policy at once”.
⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
Steve Woolman. retweeted
Great race programming: Sedgefield, Carlisle, and Redcar all on the same day, with a good deal of crossover between races . Racecourse capture, alive and kicking. Where is the modelling of the entire system?
The striking figure is Cork: average prize money is 86% higher than the average across the four British meetings (£9,000 per race). Across the 30 British races shown, total prize money is £262,000, exactly £8,733 per race. Cork's £17,000 is therefore 95% higher than the GB race average shown here.
@BHAHorseracing @RacehorseOwners @NTFnews @proform_racing
Steve Woolman. retweeted
This is well worth a watch from Proform and gives real data around the changes that have happened in racing and the failure to rationalise fixtures, compare Ireland with the UK and you see two completely different pictures. We need a decisive body that can manage the sport
@RacingPost @RacingTV
Two in five British races now pay fewer than three each-way places. Twenty years ago it was one in five.
We measured every British race since 2004: 1,548 added, the runs to fill them down 7%. Ireland went the other way.
racemetrics.co.uk/s/2995
Steve Woolman. retweeted
One contingency being considered is all weather bumpers for not offs so leading trainers can get the requisite number of jogs in before the season starts in March
Two of Britain's leading jumps trainers welcomed the contingencies mooted by the BHA to assist with the incoming "headache" of navigating an autumn jumping calendar almost certain to be impacted by this summer's drought
racingpost.com/news/jump-rac…
Steve Woolman. retweeted
A politician out of office since 2010 wants to lecture gambling on tax
Brown, who cut betting duty in 2001 to build the industry he now attacks, isn't racing's problem. Racing hands bookmakers a daily product and gets back a levy the BHA says is under 3% of a £15bn+ gambling industry. Who's exploiting whom?
We are suffering from too much empathy, not enough financial acumen, and not enough reality
@RacingPost #BritishRacing
Steve Woolman. retweeted
Bikini Bullet completes her domination of the Coral Coronation Cup @RomfordDogs by following up last week's track record with victory in £10k decider
@wiboyle @GreensGreys24
Steve Woolman. retweeted
It was a tale of two cities and two very different football grounds for an @FCBarcelona fan who turned up at the wrong St James Park last night 🏟️
The Spanish supporter, who made the journey to Devon from London, turned up at the turnstiles of Exeter City’s Adam Stansfield stand last night, expecting to see his team take on @NUFC. It was only when he showed his ticket to staff that he realised his mistake.
But he got to see a got to see a game of football – Exeter City staff sorted him out a ticket for the game against Lincoln under the lights of the real St James Park!
Adam Spencer, Supporter Experience Officer at Exeter City, said: “One of our volunteers came to the office to let us know that this guy had turned up expecting to see FC Barcelona. His English wasn’t great, but from what we could gather, he’d come from London. My guess is he’d put St James Park in his phone and then just followed the directions from there.
“He was pretty gutted and a bit embarrassed. So, we sorted him out a ticket and he got to watch a game at the real St James Park. He’d be welcome back any time.”
#ECFC #SemperFidelis
