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 Key Facts
Listed below are a number of statistics about British Racing in 2007.
- There are 59 racecourses in Britain, of which:
- 17 stage only Flat racing
- 24 stage only Jump (National Hunt) racing
- 18 stage both
- 4 racecourses (Kempton Park, Lingfield Park, Southwell and Wolverhampton) currently stage racing on an All Weather Track (AWT)
- Great Leighs, near Chelmsford in Essex, is set to become Britain’s first completely new racecourse for 80 years when it opens in 2007
- Total racecourse attendance in 2006 was just under 6m (5.86m), up from 5.1m in 2000
- Total prize money reached a record total of £104.1m in 2006, up from £71.7m in 2000
- There are around 9,500 active racehorse owners, and overall some 50,000 people are involved in racehorse ownership through various types of co-ownership
- There are around 14,500 horses in training, and over 90,000 runners in a year
- In 2007, 1415 fixtures have been programmed, providing over 9,000 races
- Of these fixtures, 144 will take place on 51 Sunday dates, and 287 will take place on 178 different evenings.
- The Racing and Breeding industry is directly responsibly for some 18,800 full time equivalent jobs
- The industry also supports a further 69,500 full time equivalent jobs, including 42,000 in the betting industry
- In 2004/05, over £10bn was bet off-course on horseracing, most of it in the circa 8,500 licensed betting offices in Britain, with a further £120m bet with the Tote on-course
- Bookmakers’ profits on British Racing totalled £1.1bn
- The Horserace Betting Levy Board received £98m from off-course bookmakers and the Tote in 2004/05
- British Racing generated some £288m in tax revenues for Government in 2004/05, and has an overall Economic Impact of £2.86bn
- Racing is second only to football measured by revenue and spectator numbers (those either paying to attend race meetings or watching the sport on television).
- BBC1’s average TV audience for Racing is 1,331,000 (BBC2: 774,500). 9.5m people watch the Grand National, and the 2005 Vodafone Derby attracted 3.2m viewers
- Two digital channels dedicated to Racing also exist: At The Races, available in over 9m homes, and Racing UK, owned by 31 leading British racecourses, which has over 37,000 subscribers
- 197 meetings were broadcast terrestrially in 2006 – 46 on the BBC and 151 on Channel 4. The latter channel attracts an average audience of 658,500 to Racing, and also has an hour-long programme, The Morning Line, every Saturday.
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