🔴 THE FRIENDS OF BELLE VUE STADIUM 🔴

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FOBVS - UPDATE:

Hi All,
Just to keep you all informed - the latest from our chair today!

Hi Alan,
I received a phone call from a radio producer who has interviewed Steve Rees and myself which will be broadcast later today and tomorrow on Heart FM, Smooth FM and XF Radio, they are fully behind our cause to save the stadium , bit late in the day but every little helps.

Many thanks

Simon

Our thanks - as ever, to Simon, along with everyone else battling away in the background!

Wherever and whenever - we can spread the word! BE POSITIVE!

Thanks

Alan

More whenever........

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🎙️ SAVE BELLE VUE CAMPAIGN ON HEART RADIO 

After weeks of pressing our message #SaveBelleVue will feature on Heart radio tomorrow morning

All being well bulletins will run from around 7am
(This is subject to change)

Please sign our petition here ➡️ change.org/p/save-belle-vue-stadium 🙏

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Taken From THe Save Belle Vue Stadium 'TWITTER' Feed



BELLE VUE CAMPAIGN HEADING TO WESTMINSTER


After several weeks of negotiations, the campaign to Save BelleVue will be visiting Westminster
later this month to meet a number of MPs potentially key to the stadium's future


Please sign our petition here ➡️ www.change.org/p/save-belle-vue-stadium

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Taken From 'TWITTER'
Save Belle Vue Stadium.

As Manchester's historic Belle Vue Greyhound stadium is under threat..

ITV corrie will see a major new storyline including greyhound 'Cerberus' airing Monday, Mar 16th.

To support the Belle Vue campaign please sign our petition here ➡️ change.org/p/save-belle-vue-stadium 🙏

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TAKEN FROM THE GREYHOUND STAR
greyhoundstar.co.uk/editors-chair-news-front-line/

The future for on-course bookmakers
is one subject that has rattled cages.

We reported that a Racing Post spin-off had created software to formulate SPs post Coronavirus. We also reported that some tracks would save a great deal of money by not having to pay hefty sums for bookies to attend BAGS/SIS meetings.

We also reproduced part of a Gambling Commission report into greyhound betting. It was a direct quote from a report that you can read yourself on their website.

These were factual reports. Don’t shoot the messenger.

Among the more reasoned responses was from the hugely respected
Belle Vue layer Simon Walmsley
whose letter is published here in his role
as Chairman of the National Association of Bookmakers:

I have read with considerable interest many of the comments lamenting on-course bookmakers. At this point I would like to clarify that not ALL on-course bookmakers get paid to attend a meeting on BAGS, SIS or RPGTV, speaking as a Belle Vue bookmaker we have never received a payment for any meeting. Many tracks struggle to attract on-course operators because they have foregone their evening fixtures in favour of lucrative media fixtures so the problem arises.

Your article suggests that the Gambling Commission would prefer it if SPs were not derived from on-course operators, however, they are satisfied to receive the license fees they pay and monetary contributions towards problem gambling but in reality I would imagine it would be the SP Regulatory Committee who would have the final say.

Having bet at many BAGS fixtures for a number of years it would be very easy to be insulted at this article as many of my colleagues spend a great deal of time watching re-runs of races and preparing their own tissue before arriving at the track and making final adjustments when the non-runners and reserves are announced, this may also include late withdrawals during the day too. We have to travel to the track, most of us live an hour away at least and makes for a day’s work. Whilst we bet at the track, we may notice any bias in the track if there has been prolonged weather conditions, would an algorithm deal with this. We are also in a position to know the dogs and this is an advantage only the human touch brings to the table.

What is puzzling me the most is that I have never met a punter who has not had their account closed or severely restricted, not always for having the audacity to back a winner but sometimes for backing too many selections that drop in price but don’t necessarily go on to win so I don’t know who is applauding the future of odds being produced by a computer but at this moment in time, prior to COVID-19 that is, if you want a 500/400 on a BAGS meeting at Belle Vue come and have a bet at the track, you will be on. Come racing when we’re back!!

I think the on-course layers have served the industry very well over the past decades, facilitating them to earn millions of pounds and if you are not happy with this then it will be interesting to see an alternative that works better.
Stay well, stay safe.

Simon Walmsley, Chairman National Association of Bookmakers

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WILL ON-COURSE BOOKIES BE BACK?

Click on the link below to see what made Simon react to Floyd's article

greyhoundstar.co.uk/sign-betting-things-come/

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Well you learn something every day I always thought the Belle Vue track-side bookmakers had to pay some sort of rent to stand at the track.

Many years ago our bookmakers use to sponsor races at the track i fully understand now why they won't cough up any more.

Here's hoping when things get back to normal our track-side bookmakers are still in attendance ..
But i think we all know things sadly are never ever going to be the same again.

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This is a very interesting article in the Greyhound Star re: on course bookmakers.

Now then one thing i would like to know is what ever happened to the 5/2 the field on our weekly BAGS race cards?