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ATTENDANCE AND BETTING DOWN ON FIRST DAY OF GALWAY RACES

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Date Published: 26-Jul-2011

 

Attendance and TOTE spending at the first day of the Galway Racing Festival was down slightly on the same day last year.

17 thousand 570 people attended Ballybrit last evening, 391 less than 2010.

Punters at Ballybrit spent just over 663 thousand euro on TOTE bettting, compared to 702 thousand last year.

Bookmakers also saw a slight drop on their takings yesterday compared to 2010.

Almost 1 and a half million euro was spent at bookies’ stalls yesterday compared to 1.7 million euro last year.

 

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