Attendance and betting at Galway races down marginally on last year
Galway bay fm newsroom - Attendance and betting were down marginally during the week long Galway races festival compared to last year.
Almost 4 and a half thousand less people attended Ballybrit over the 7 days, while the bookies were down over 880 thousand euro on 2012.However attendance and betting was up on the final day of the festival. (4/08)
13,344 people attended Ballybrit yesterday - that's 807 more that the same day last year.Tote turnover was also up at 451 thousand 819 euro compared to 373 thousand 337 in 2012.Bookmakers were up on last years figures too - 769 thousand 770 euro compared to 733 thousand 195 euro.Dermot Weld saddled his eleventh winner of the week and was crowned leading trainer at the festival for the 27th time.