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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2018 21:42:31 GMT
the big question is betfred are big comp sponsors at kinsley and nottingham, will those comps be lost or possibly move to other tracks ?
eclipse gymcrack select stakes
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 3, 2018 23:44:05 GMT
the big question is betfred are big comp sponsors at kinsley and nottingham, will those comps be lost or possibly move to other tracks ? eclipse gymcrack select stakes 'IF' BETFRED / MR FRED DONE WERE TO PULL THE PLUG ON HIS GREYHOUND SPONSORSHIP AT KINSLEY AND NOTTINGHAM THIS YEAR THEN THE 'GMG' GROUP MAY HAVE TO STEP IN AND SPONSOR THIS MAJOR COMPS ON THERE OWN VENUES. JUST LIKE THEY DID WITH THE RUNNING OF THE 2017 OAKS AT THE ZOO.
THE MAIN THING IS THESE 3 LONG STANDING COMPS GET THE GREEN LIGHT THIS YEAR WITH OUR WITHOUT THE LIKES OF 'BETFRED' AND THE LIKES.
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 5, 2018 11:34:04 GMT
TAKEN FROM THE RACING POST - FRIDAY 5/1/17
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Post by YORKIE on Jan 8, 2018 17:34:04 GMT
EXCITING TIMES AHEAD FOR THE WHOLE OF THE GREYHOUND INDUSTRY
ROLL ON 2018.... I'm not sure about exciting times ahead, yes there will be some winners, but also there will be some losers. I would say more unpredictable than exciting at the moment. Well, one week into 2018 and what a mess the game is in.
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 9, 2018 22:42:12 GMT
Here is what 956 greyhounds look like to betting shop punters. Just one day’s televised racing.
What A Grazy Game We Are Involved In These Days..
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 10, 2018 16:40:19 GMT
TAKEN FROM THE GREYHOUND STAR..greyhoundstar.co.uk/media-battle-sees-rise-registrations/The media battle between ARC/GMG and SIS is almost certainly responsible for a 6.5% increase in UK greyhound registrations in 2017 writes Floyd Amphlett.
A total of 8,094 new greyhounds were registered for racing with GBGB as tracks with contracts with both media providers looked to strengthen their racing numbers. That represents an increase of 490 greyhounds on the previous year.
A quick glimpse at the graph indicates how registration numbers have fluctuated since 1997. The peak was 2005 when 11,912 were made available for NGRC racing. With around three dozen independent tracks still in operation, the total number of imports was considerably higher.
The figures continued to drop and eventually dipped under the 8,000 mark for the first time in 2011 before reaching an all-time low of 7,329 in 2014 followed by a minor bounce in 2015.
Of those registered in 2017, 6,767 (83.6%) were Irish bred, with 1,327 (16.4%) British bred.
The increase in the number of greyhounds will be a concern to welfarists. It leaves the industry with another 500 or so greyhounds to be re-homed (most within the next two and a half years) and still no sign that the biggest betting companies are prepared to pay into the BGRF on their internet business – notably Betfair/Paddy Power.
On the plus side, the rise in registrations, coupled with the continued decline in breeding, is further evidence that the slowest least valuable greyhounds are finding racing careers. The cynics might say that Ireland is exporting its welfare issues along with its valuable racers.
*As an aside – There were 1,497 British bred pups born in 2015. If we assume that all the 2017 registrations were 2015 whelps (which the vast majority must have been), then roughly 89% made racing careers. Nationally, home finders would have been left with a maximum of 170 pups (minus those who died of illness or injury between six weeks and 15 months of age) to re-home in a year.
Since young dogs are indisputably easier to re-home than ex-racers, the claims made about the fate of ‘ALL those who don’t make it’ are made to look fatuous.
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Post by blueyhills on Jan 10, 2018 21:08:05 GMT
All Bellevue patrons and family should boycott all Ladbroke ,coral and bet fried shops. Also close your accounts.
Talking in aDavid pluck shop tonight twith a manager, he said that ladbrokes had done the same with some horse meetings, but relented eventually.
Make it known to the press and any media that if agreed on here all BV patrons are boycotting these shops.
They don't like bad press!!!!
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Post by SALFORD GIRL on Jan 10, 2018 21:30:43 GMT
All Bellevue patrons and family should boycott all Ladbroke ,coral and bet fried shops. Also close your accounts. Talking in aDavid pluck shop tonight twith a manager, he said that ladbrokes had done the same with some horse meetings, but relented eventually. Make it known to the press and any media that if agreed on here all BV patrons are boycotting these shops. They don't like bad press!!!! Your right Tony
I will not ever place a bet in a BETFRED shop again.
GREEDY MR DONE..
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 11, 2018 22:27:34 GMT
TAKEN FROM THE RACING POST THURSDAY 11/1/18..
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 12, 2018 13:00:25 GMT
PRESS RELEASE.. Friday 12/1/18
Formnet – A statement from the Racecourse Promoters Association..
The Racecourse Promoters Association (RCPA) wishes to take this opportunity to respond to notes that appeared within Barry Stanton’s blog ‘Formnet’ on the Greyhound Star website recently and generally repeated in a Racing Post article, a few days later, and again yesterday.
In his comments, Mr Stanton is critical that “an industry can develop a product, namely Formnet, invest time and money in doing so and agree to cede the software and operating system to a third party who can then threaten us with withdrawing the facility if we don’t pay for its usage?”
Mr Stanton has subsequently accused the executive of the RCPA and the GBGB of ‘willingly and inexplicably’ giving away an invaluable asset – i.e. control of its form,data and registry.
The reality, as Mr Stanton will surely recall, is that Formnet was set up, and operated by BAGS in direct competition with the BGRB (the GBGB’s predecessor) funded and universally used Raceman system, following and during, a battle between the BGRB representing Greyhound Racing and BAGS representing Bookmakers – under a campaign which became known as ‘New Deal’. GBGB always have and continue to control the registry.
BAGS, funded by its bookmaker members, invested significant funds to setup Formnet and introduced the system to the then six racecourses owned and controlled by three of its members as they suspected that they could be held to ransom over access to greyhound form and wanted to have control over this key element of the service they were supplying to their members. The majority of racecourses not owned by Bookmaker companies, continued to operate Raceman both efficiently and securely.
Once Formnet was fully established BAGS made it freely available to all racecourses and subsequently made the exclusive use Formnet a condition of having a contract with BAGS. Mr Stanton will no doubt recall this as during this time he was General Manager at Crayford.
This insistence by BAGS; the increase in the number of racecourses contracted to the BAGS service; the reduction in the GBGB licensed racecourse numbers made the move from Raceman to Formnet inevitable. As a result, Formnet became the industry standard and BAGS, a non-profit organisation, remained the administrator of that service.
Racecourses have continued to use the Formnet system, supplied by BAGS who were willing to provide free of cost as they were funded by their members through the collection of fees for the distribution of live greyhound racing to bookmakers (the BAGS service). Racecourses have continued that use in the full knowledge that they have no documented agreement with BAGS for their use of Formnet.
As Mr Stanton will also be aware, the current on-going media battle has resulted in BAGS losing its ability to fund Formnet as it is no longer the collector of fees and paymaster to racecourses. Consequently, the future operation of Formnet requires funding and BAGS needs to charge users for this service.
The BAGS costs will be recovered through a fair levy with every track holding an ARC/BAGS contract being charged at the same rate as the SIS contracted tracks (on a per meeting basis). The levy is a two-tier system with racecourses being charged a fee of £1 per meeting where a meeting is not transmitted. This second-tier fee assists racecourses that are not contracted to either service and therefore have no media rights income. For transmitted meetings the fee will be set to raise a maximum of £600,000 in the first year, which given the scheduled number of meetings should equate to circa £160 per transmitted fixture.
Mr Stanton’s questioning of the level of fees levied, which he states as equating to the cost of ‘five highly paid developers’, ignores the costs of management through all racing times for 23 tracks, 364 days per year; any replacement hardware costs; maintenance of the system and a national communication network; and during this first year of operation the cost of a major upgrade and development works. The planned major upgrade will be the first in five years and will be welcomed by racing offices.
BAGS has said that it anticipates a reduction in fees after the upgrade has been completed. BAGS is a not for profit organisation, so its fee charging will always be set to cover costs only.
BAGS CEO, Phill Adams, has confirmed to the RCPA Executive that the upgrade specification will result from extensive consultation with the GBGB and racing offices through a formal steering committee to replace the current ad-hoc user group.
Mr Stanton makes the point regarding concern as to who gets control of Formnet should BAGS cease to exist and if it should be a commercial company capable of holding greyhound racing over a barrel. This is a pertinent point given that when SIS launched their hostile bid to take over BAGS in the last eighteen months, it is understood that SIS wanted to take control of Formnet as part of that takeover. Had that takeover bid been successful then Formnet would have indeed been controlled by a commercial company, operating to make profit. It is also believed that SIS spent in excess of £1million several years ago trying to design software for a Formnet replacement, but were unsuccessful.
The RCPA Executive are in discussion with BAGS to secure the Formnet system for the benefit of the greyhound industry, through the GBGB, a not for profit organisation, in the event that BAGS were to cease trading in the future.
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