0 a wide, usually circular, path with a grass surface, on which horses race, or the area that includes this path and buildings around it --
It provides substantial employment in racing stables and racecourses throughout the country.
Is it not really better that horse-racing should have some benefit from this great stream of cash which goes pouring through the racecourses?
There are the questions of the carriage of racehorses and of air-landing strips close to the racecourses.
It contains light and heavy engineering, an industrial estate, a racecourse, and various leisure facilities on a comprehensive scale.
There is associated with racing the idea that rich people own racecourses, and that all racecourses make a fantastic profit.
Thirdly, the number of trainers is decreasing and, fourthly, we can see from the figures that attendances at racecourses are static or even declining.
This industry is declining because revenue from racecourses is declining, attendances are going down.
If you take 800 bookmakers at £10, that amounts to £8,000 that they take away from one racecourse alone every week during the racing season.
