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Will All Betting Shops Be Gone By 2030? | The Front Page
Season 3
Episode 60
Published 3 weeks, 4 days ago
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Sam Hart, Lee Mottershead and Oliver Barnard are this week's team for an edition of The Front Page that contains some dire warnings from the bookmaking industry.
Betfred founder Fred Done has claimed that a doubling of machine games duty would devastate his betting shop business as well as the wider sector, so much so he thinks there will be no betting shops by 2030.
Joseph O'Brien is also thinking about numbers but in his case it's in relation to how many runners he will saddle in the Melbourne Cup. The team looks at the trainer's sizeable Australian squad and looks back at the weekend racing's highlights and the Newmarket Open Weekend.
On top of all that, there are even ante-post tips for this year's Arc.