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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 13, 2019 13:52:21 GMT
Don't miss tomorrow's Racing Post Greyhounds section as champion trainer Mark Wallis makes his debut on Monday Column duty bit.ly/1FaSy6c
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 14, 2019 0:44:15 GMT
Errol Blyth presents the show on FridayLive RPGTV schedule for the week ahead....All 6pm showtimeMonday 14th: Nottingham & Yarmouth In the studio: Phil Donaldson, Dave Clark & form student Jason Long
Tuesday 15th: Poole & Sheffield In the studio: Tanya Stevenson, Rose Draper & former racing manager Dave Brayshaw
Wednesday 16th: Peterborough & Sunderland In the studio: Julie Collier, Tony Bullen & Sunderland assistant racing manager Andrew Morley
Thursday 17th: Newcastle & Yarmouth In the studio: Ian Meek, Jonathan Hobbs & syndicate organiser Billy Brennan
Friday 18th: Nottingham & Romford In the studio: Errol Blyth & Richard Harkness, Jonathan Hobbs at Romford for the Coronation Cup final
Saturday 19th: Crayford & Sheffield In the studio: Jason Barrasford, Kaan Hughes & trainer Gary Vincent
Sunday 20th: Central Park & Poole In the studio: Darrell Williams, Ali Brown & social media tipster Danny Archer...
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Post by SALFORD GIRL on Jan 15, 2019 0:13:19 GMT
Funding boost is welcome but more is required...BY MARK WALLIS....THE big news off the track over the last few days was the agreement for major bookmakers to make voluntary contributions to the BGRF on online turnover.
The £3 million boost is without doubt a shot in the arm our industry so desperately needs. Along with the positive news that RPGTV are to put £100k into ten open-race competitions it means 2019 couldn’t have started any better, but still questions have to be asked.
For starters, what took the bookmakers so long to realise that without financial support like they afford to our equine equivalent we struggle to run our industry? An industry that has provided decent profits for all the major firms for many years and reportedly turns over £1.5 billion annually.
In the years while I’ve been champion trainer I’ve seen many track closures, owners disappearing at a rapid rate and, most importantly, welfare issues that have near finished the sport.
Track closures cannot be entirely laid at the bookmakers’ doors, of course, as we all know some promoters decided to cash in on the property and land boom in recent years. Tracks sitting in prime sites were, and still are, obvious targets, but in some cases we as an industry shot ourselves in the foot. Walthamstow provided everything that a promoter and the industry could wish for...My beloved Walthamstow was sold for a reported £25m. That purchase price looks cheap now as we see money being pumped into the sport from the likes of SIS.
Walthamstow could have been the flagship track in our industry, providing everything a buyer could have wished for – great, competitive racing, decent betting margins and, yes, crowds filling the stadium given the right promotion.
Letting it slip away underlines the complete short sightedness in our industry that has been rife in my time as a trainer since 2005, and I still say the closure of the Stow, just over ten years ago, was the catalyst for the sport’s current dire straits.
Of course, we have to acknowledge that without the ever increasing daytime racing required by the betting shops many more tracks would have also gone to the wall. Bookmaker payments to them have for many been the only reason they are still a viable businesses.
Plenty would say promoters have stopped promoting to try and get crowds in the evenings in any case, but the truth is people don’t go out any more from Monday to Friday.
We all have a plethora of home entertainment to keep us amused and Saturday nights seem the only occasion people want entertainment outside of their homes. Has the industry adapted or moved with the times on this? I don’t think so.
Daytime racing these days is much more than just keeping live sport in betting shops so punters can play the FOBTs. With betting restrictions lifted across the world, and bookmakers able to supply punters with live action through mobile apps and the like, there are plenty of profits to be had solely on online turnover.
We now race at 8am at Henlow and have been told the bookmakers are loving it. Greyhound racing is a simple sport to bet on and these early morning fixtures appear to provide a welcome new source of revenue for them. Maybe that’s why they have realised they actually need more than ever the sport to survive, hence the boost in payments.
Hopefully some of the extra money will also find its way back to owners. If any group has suffered most during recent times it’s definitely them.
It has been said hundreds of times, but without owners the sport would not survive, and the increasing trend of trainers owning a large percentage of their kennel strength is not a healthy one for a number of reasons, not least on the welfare side.
Without being too blunt, the temptation to euthanise those greyhounds that don’t pay their way is blatantly there – certainly not for myself I might add – especially as many promoters are now getting paid enough for them to warrant buying cheap racers at sales and then giving them to their contracted trainers to replace their lame ones.
For me it’s a depressing thought that greyhounds could become victims of the bookmakers’ thirst for more racing, and this alone should tell us that our £3m ‘windfall’ is merely scratching the surface of what’s actually needed each year.
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 20, 2019 7:10:44 GMT
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 21, 2019 7:09:44 GMT
Nottingham has ten opens live on RPGTV tonightNottingham and Yarmouth get the RPGTV week under wayBY RACING POST STAFF 3:34AM 14 JAN 2019RACING Post Greyhound TV's Monday programme features 13-race cards from Nottingham (11 opens) and Yarmouth.
The programme goes on air at 6pm (Front Runner on Sky channel 431, Freesat 250 and is streamed free at greyhoundbet.racingpost.com plus partner websites).
The RPGTV Flying Four concentrates on the Nottingham open action and comprises the 7.05, 7.36, 8.08 & 8.37 races, with all having been priced early by bookmaker partners.
The show is presented by Rachel Casey, who is joined in the studio by analyst Richard Harkness plus Liam Aspin, kennelhand with in-form trainer Kevin Boon.
Viewers can contact the show by emailing rpgtv@racingpost.com or tweeting @rpgreyhounds.
*Want to keep up with the action on RPGTV on the move? We've have it covered with our Greyhound Bet app now featuring live streaming of all the races covered on the channel. What's more with our slick two-click betting, it's never been easier to place a wager and watch the action as it happens. Download at bit.ly/1ENhFOc
Check out RPGTV's Youtube channel - bringing you all the features from RPGTV, as well as key interviews along with some of the more amusing moments on the channel. Visit bit.ly/2yHFXh1
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 21, 2019 11:41:26 GMT
Live RPGTV schedule for the week aheadAll 6pm showtime
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 26, 2019 0:33:19 GMT
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Post by SALFORD GIRL on Jan 28, 2019 0:34:16 GMT
'JB'Jason Barrasford introduces the action on Wednesday and Sunday...Live RPGTV schedule for the week aheadAll 6pm showtimeMonday 28th: Nottingham & Yarmouth In the studio: Tanya Stevenson, Kaan Hughes & former bookmaker Steve Allen
Tuesday 29th: Poole & Sheffield In the studio: Julie Collier, Ali Brown & owner JD Maragh
Wednesday 30th: Peterborough & Sunderland In the studio: Jason Barrasford, Tony Bullen & commentator Mark Cranston
Thursday 31st: Newcastle & Yarmouth In the studio: Errol Blyth, Dave Clark and punter/fundraiser Gary Floyd
Friday 1st: Nottingham & Romford In the studio: Ian Meek, Jonathan Hobbs & syndicate organiser Ray Bourne
Saturday 2nd: Crayford & Sheffield In the studio: Darrell Williams, Dave Clark & owner Nick Usher
Sunday 3rd: Central Park & Poole In the studio: Jason Barrasford, Jonathan Kay & kennelhand Kieran Adams...
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Post by SALFORD GIRL on Jan 31, 2019 12:23:02 GMT
TAKEN FROM THE RACING POST 'TWITTER' FEED THURSDAY 31/1/19....
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Post by BVADMIN on Jan 31, 2019 22:13:32 GMT
TAKEN FROM TODAY'S RACING POST::
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