A COMPETITION currently in progress at Tralee has a prizemoney breakdown in the final that tracks in Britain would do well to note.
With the trend here prize-wise to concentrate mostly on winners of big events but, in many cases, offer a pittance to the other finalists, the second and third in the John & Mary Killeacle Dowling Memorial final later this month at Tralee will be generously rewarded.
The 570 yards event is for A1 class greyhounds with the winner of the final collecting 3000 euros, the second 1250 and the third 750, more proportionate you may agree than for the beaten dogs in big finals here.
Other races on the Kingdom track’s card also carried eye-opening prizes, for example an A3 was worth 225 euros to the winner, an A6 195 euros and an A4 215 euros.
Compare these rewards to the paltry amounts for winners at Belle Vue tonight where the opening A6 event carries the princely sum of £56 and the A2s £76. And there are folk out there who tell us that the game in Britain is on the up, who’s kidding who?
With the trend here prize-wise to concentrate mostly on winners of big events but, in many cases, offer a pittance to the other finalists, the second and third in the John & Mary Killeacle Dowling Memorial final later this month at Tralee will be generously rewarded.
The 570 yards event is for A1 class greyhounds with the winner of the final collecting 3000 euros, the second 1250 and the third 750, more proportionate you may agree than for the beaten dogs in big finals here.
Other races on the Kingdom track’s card also carried eye-opening prizes, for example an A3 was worth 225 euros to the winner, an A6 195 euros and an A4 215 euros.
Compare these rewards to the paltry amounts for winners at Belle Vue tonight where the opening A6 event carries the princely sum of £56 and the A2s £76. And there are folk out there who tell us that the game in Britain is on the up, who’s kidding who?
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