{"id":482166,"date":"2025-10-08T05:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/482166\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T05:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:44:11","slug":"racing-season-opener-at-exeter-cancelled-due-to-firm-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/482166\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing season opener at Exeter cancelled due to firm ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Exeter Racecourse general manager Jack Parkinson said: &#8220;We rely heavily on the bookmakers.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If their profits are hit by this new tax, then that will have a direct impact on the racecourse through the levy, which is where the money goes; and then through that we get given prize money and sponsorship and all those aspects of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The bookmakers will just cut down on that, so the prize money will lower, which will mean less horses in racing and, ultimately, will have a huge impact on the small courses like Exeter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">HM Treasury said: &#8220;We do not comment on speculation around future changes to tax policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exeter Racecourse general manager Jack Parkinson said: &#8220;We rely heavily on the bookmakers. &#8220;If their profits are hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-482166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115336961281780125","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}