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BETTING ON JUMPS RACING. IT’S A REAL THING NOW
July 19, 2021 3:50 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
A mate texted me this morning, alerting me to some figures that are more significant than they first seem.
They raced at both Sportsbet
Pakenham and
Warracknabeal was a flat-race program and Pakenham was exclusively jumps.
The anti-jumps people have had a few key gripes including animal welfare, cost to put it on – believed to be around $4 million a year – and that “no-one bets on it.”
Well, they did yesterday.
Admittedly Pakenham was a showcase of the very best jumping horses and Warracknabeal was a maiden and Benchmark 58 program relocated from washed-out
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$500,000 prizemoney injection, headlines the spring carnival finale meeting which has been relocated from
Ladbrokes Park Sandown to
Caulfield and transplanted to the last Saturday of November.
The Jericho is run the following day and Gibbins and McKenna say the Zipping meeting has invaded the Jericho’s territory.
While the increasingly-popular
Jericho Cup is run on the Sunday at
Warrnambool, festivities such as a Light horse competition staged on the Saturday had made the Jericho a weekend rather than a race-day.
Planners are looking to extend the Jericho festivities, starting on the Friday prior to the race.
Gibbins said he was “filthy” when he learned of the Zipping move “because you need continuity. If you start something like we have, you have to leave it and give it space and give it a chance.”