Notices - June 2006

MISCONCEPTIONS

A recent survey conducted across a wide spectrum of people associated with greyhound racing has shown a misconception of where prize money for owners actually comes from. The survey showed that a large percentage of those answering this question thought that the main contributor to prize money was the British Greyhound Racing Fund.

Whilst B.G.R.F. does contribute graded prize money across the board to N.G.R.C. registered tracks, its contribution amounts to only £3m out of a total of some £13.2m estimated to be paid as prize money in 2006. This contribution of £3m is agreed with the British Greyhound Racing Board by the Federation who are represented on the Board.

In 2006 each track with a full year's qualification will receive 70% of the amount available divided equally. In addition, they will receive a proportional grant based upon the number of races held, together with a multiplication factor representing their own prize money levels. Thus the tracks paying the most self generated prize money will receive proportionally more B.G.R.F. monney, the intention of which is to reward greyhound owners of track managements who have an enlightened prize money structure.

However, offsetting this is the factor that these tracks generally have the highest kennel bills and some managements who could pay more prize money through their B.A.G.S. contracts prefer not to increase their prize money and some have even reduced their prize money. This situation needs to be addressed.

The table below shows the Federation's calculation of how the scheme works and the amounts payable to each individual track.

SCHEDULE FBGOA - INDICATIVE

AVERAGE GRADED RACE PRIZE MONEY 2006

RANK	TRACK	TOTAL GRADED RACES	PRIZE MONEY PAID BY PROMOTER	BGRF TOTAL ALLOCATION 2006	ESTIMATED TOTAL PRIZE MONEY
1	CRAYFORD	3118	£813,798	£146,475	£960,273
2	MONMORE	2616	£625,224	£148,194	£773,418
3	HOVE	3026	£671,772	£140,911	£812,683
4	HALL GREEN	2904	£624,360	£113,698	£738,058
5	SHEFFIELD	3188	£672,668	£112,586	£785,254
6	ROMFORD	3188	£666,292	£146,331	£812,623
7	WIMBLEDON	2220	£439,560	£152,962	£592,522
8	SUNDERLAND	3174	£593,538	£113,059	£706,597
9	BROUGH PARK	3254	£605,244	£102,540	£707,784
10	WALTHAMSTOW	2702	£475,552	£159,822	£635,374
11	NOTTINGHAM	2334	£387,444	£105,310	£492,754
12	COVENTRY	1322	£218,130	£102,593	£320,723
13	BELLE VUE	2562	£391,986	£122,807	£514,793
14	PERRY BARR	3234	£413,952	£96,370	£510,322
15	SWINDON	3018	£374,232	£86,845	£461,077
16	OXFORD	2798	£327,366	£102,635	£430,001
17	PETERBOROUGH	2526	£270,282	£83,861	£354,143
18	KINSLEY	1966	£196,600	£80,399	£276,999
19	SITTINGBOURNE	1402	£128,984	£77,074	£206,058
20	HARLOW	1482	£136,344	£73,514	£209,858
21	POOLE	1760	£156,640	£85,385	£242,025
22	DONCASTER	1520	£135,280	£75,894	£211,174
23	HULL	852	£69,864	£61,574	£131,438
24	SHAWFIELD	1960	£154,840	£79,552	£234,392
25	YARMOUTH	1948	£153,892	£80,080	£233,972
26	MILDENHALL	1182	£81,558	£61,612	£143,170
27	PORTSMOUTH	1800	£124,200	£71,900	£196,100
28	READING	1570	£108,330	£76,127	£184,457
29	RYE HOUSE	718	£41,644	£62,243	£103,887
30	HENLOW	1734	£98,838	£47,251	£146,089
31	PELAW GRANGE	1630	£73,350	£47,251	£120,601
	TOTALS & AVERAGES	68708	£10,231,764	£3,016,855	£13,248,619

ASSUMPTIONS

1. NUMBER OF RACES IS BASED ON ACTUALS NOVEMBER 2005 TO APRIL 2006 (6 MONTHS) MULTIPLIED BY 2 EXCEPT HULL AND RYE HOUSE BASED ON ACTUALS NOVEMBER 2005 TO FEBRUARY 2006 (4 MONTHS) MULTIPLIED BY 3
2. AVERAGE PRIZE MONEY BASED ON ACTUALS AS AT APRIL 2006
3. BGRF ALLOCATION 2006 IS ACTUAL AMOUNT FOR EACH TRACK.

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How the added prize money is distributed at the track is a matter for your local association to negotiate with track management within the guidelines laid down for the distributionof this added money. Copies of these rules are available upon request to the Federation, who monitor all monthly claims on behalf of B.G.R.F. for prize money against the racecards submitted, on a regular basis.

If you have any unresolved problems regarding any aspect of added prize money, contact the Federation who have a wealth of knowledge on this subject at their fingertips.