Further Things That Are Wrong (Part 2)

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Horse racing is Ireland and Ireland is horse racing.

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2207

And how many lives does it ruin? But that’s ok if a few weirdos keep their weird hobbies as an income

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2208

Attendances at Irish race courses were over 1.2m last year.

As @BruidheanChaorthainn said you had 30k in Listowel on a Wednesday recently and the town absolutely hopping after it.

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More lies, but you can have it, we’re just going to stop giving it tax payers money and we might try and stop gambling on it so people’s lives can stop being ruined

2210

Close all the pubs and offies so as well? How many lives does that ruin?

I don’t know why I’m even replying to you as you’re the most disingenuous cunt on here.

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2211

The horse boxes are circling here now boys. We’re getting a fine insight

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I’ll be watching and appreciating it, the same way I’d appreciate a piece of music from a foreign musician.

I was born and raised in rural Ireland and I can tell you that I never seen a horse or greyhound until I left the place, nor knew anyone who attended the racing of such animals. It’s a regional thing, I suspect, as opposed to an ‘Irish’ thing.

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2213

I’ll just ask that we don’t give the tax payers money to the pubs and off licenses

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2214

Addicts are addicts. If not gambling it’ll be something else. Just cause a friend of yours fucked up their life with gambling doesn’t mean the other 99% can’t enjoy themselves with it in moderation.

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2215

I think 20k plus at both the Wednesday and Thursday of Galway too.

Without racing we might as well pack it all in.

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That’s not a very reasonable arguement. Ah Shur they’re going to do something so we should give the taxpayers money to prop up their gambling racket

2217

Would they not be as well off at work maybe on a Wednesday and Thursday?

2218

You really are missing the point mate.
Less than 1% of every Euro bet on a horse or dog in Ireland finds its way back to racing.
In most countries it’s about 15-20%.
Something like close to $5b is bet on horses in Ireland. The average amount bet per starter is second only to Hong Kong. Yet Ireland has shit prize money in comparison to most countries.
As a stakeholder, a dog owner, I’d have thought you’d be put out by that, but maybe you enjoy being fucked over.

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The gambling industry is self regulated mate, its grand, look away

Wait a minute, is Esteban a doggy owner?

Well fuck me. This changes everything

2220

It’s hilarious you have people who think you can ban gambling.

Gambling is a part of our make up. It’s like banning being attracted to other people.

It’s classist too. You gamble on horses or sport you’re a degenerate of sorts if you gamble on stocks you’re deemed to be successful or a businessman.

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We should stop enabling it mate. Try not to be so lateral in your thinking.

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What’s most countries? How does that 15% stack up against what is paid out here? The prize money for dog and horse racings stacks up here equivelant to anywhere

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I own a horse too. Ive a load of dags

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It doesn’t mate, not in relation to the amount of money bet per starter or per race. Ireland should have Japanese and HK levels of prize money per race when you look at the sheer amount of money bet.
The avg bet per starter in Ireland is over 300k. By comparison in the US it’s 34k and their average prize money is not much lower. The Japanese have less bet per starter and average purse is almost 70k per race there. In Ireland it’s 27k.
But, hey, if you’re happy enough then fair enough.

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That’s very misleading.

Japan and Hong Kong only run elite horses. In Hong Kong it’s something like 90 rated. You will always
get more betting on higher quality racing.

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