Staggering difference in the cost of a day’s sport

9:44am Monday 19th November 2012 in Letters By Reader's letter

A RECENT family wedding took me to Australia, where I spent a day at the races at Rosehill on the outskirts if Sydney.

Admission was 20 dollars, but only five dollars for us oldies and nine races took place. At the August Ebor meeting, admission was £27, reduced to £24 for oldies, for a card of six races. An Australian dollar equates to 65p.

Perhaps the York races committee should consider whether value for money is being given by them. With average wages in Australia being about 50 per cent higher than here, the difference in cost of a day’s sport in real terms is staggering.

Geoff Robb, Hunters Close, Dunnington.

Comments(6)

ColdAsChristmas says...
1:36pm Mon 19 Nov 12

You say sport and then giving betting on horses as the only example.
You can get into a betting shop for free in York if you want to call that sport.

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Fat Harry says...
2:04pm Mon 19 Nov 12

The cheapest flight to Sydney I can find advertised on the internet is £542 each way (pun intended), but I can get to York Races and back for under a fiver, so an afternoon's sport on Knavesmire still looks a bit of a bargain to me.

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Omega Point says...
5:50pm Mon 19 Nov 12

Horse racing is not a sport, it is animal exploitation

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J-Dawg says...
12:42pm Tue 20 Nov 12

It is a sport. Just because horses are well looked after, given good quality of life, kept fit, ridden and loved you think it is "animal exploitation".

I'd suggest you look to history to really see animal exploitation on farms, etc. That still happens now, you can see them on the roadside, these are the horses you should be focusing on.

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J-Dawg says...
12:42pm Tue 20 Nov 12

It is a sport. Just because horses are well looked after, given good quality of life, kept fit, ridden and loved you think it is "animal exploitation".

I'd suggest you look to history to really see animal exploitation on farms, etc. That still happens now, you can see them on the roadside, these are the horses you should be focusing on.

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Matt_S says...
5:12pm Tue 20 Nov 12

J-Dawg, do you think the horses would consent to racing if they knew the risks? I'm not so sure they would.

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