Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion with Chairman Designate

10:40 am

Mr. Joe Keeling:

That is a very good question but often when one looks at the smaller tracks they are actually making money. They do very well financially and have local teams, for example, Ballinrobe does a fantastic job. Kilbeggan does a super job. How could one take them out when they are profitable and local people support them? I am not saying that some will not go out. In the past we closed down Phoenix Park which was probably a tragedy because 25,000 people used to go to some of the big meetings there in the 1960s.

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