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Stow_judge
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A tote monopoly, owned by racing, with a 5% deduction for all pools.
Betting via on-line, on-course and in shops/newsagent etc
RUK will be free-to-air, 7 days a week, and horse racings' popularity will be through the roof.
Racecourses will be free to enter and food & drink will be Weatherspoon prices.
Prize money will be very significantly higher, funded by a massive increase in betting turnover on racings' own tote.
(With all proceeds re-invested in the sport)
All existing players with a massively reduced turnover.
SIS out of business, replaced by RUK, free to air, with seperate channels for horse and Greyhound racing
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Report askari1 • March 30, 2011 2:02 PM BST
horse racings' popularity will be through the roof

This is the key. Every interested party (w/ the exception of largely parasitical traders) wd be happy w/ some kind of slice of a bigger pie. Owners, workers, courses, successful punters: all cd live w/ a high-turnover, low-margin tote.

At the moment all these groups are at one another's throats.

The biggest barrier to your vision are the bookies and their argument for the role of shops in providing employment and social cohesion in marginal areas.
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