Everyone loves that horse and particularly his own as trainer and all. Stop people who live with him so that it's like losing a very close friend when something like that happens. I'd just like to ask you, John Goldstone, about another big issue in racing. And it's about mindless gambling, which the bookmaking industry very much lives off. And it's this turnover by people and the whole machines are altered and designed to rob them. It's as simple as that.
They're calculated. To take their money. Whereas our game is a very different 1. You can go racing the whole day, you don't have to have a bed, and you can have a wonderful day out. But I don't want to see our industry destroyed. It would be tragic.
We are world leaders. But as you say, John, everybody these days pretty much has a bookmaker in their pocket in the form of their mobile phone, don't they? And those who perhaps go on one particular bookmaker's Apple or website to place a bet on a slot machine or an online casino,o and then might flip over to another tab and have a bet on a horse race.
You can understand why the government t.Might see those two things as the same entity and therefore should be taxed the same, and I understand where you're coming from Still, they're very different mindsets to someone who just pumps away on a machine, that you know, young kids, men, women of a certain age, blowing housekeeping.
But everything that is the horse race, you gotta stop and. Think about it, you can't just go in and feel the 20, I'll have #19, that means nothing. It's a very different thing and it takes a bit of work, time and effort to work things out. And people seem to activateshort-termterm on everything now t,hat actua,lly our betting is you can use the word.
It takes a lot of intelligence to find your way. Is that, but you can makemoneye, and you can win money. Yeah. Well, in response, the Treasury told us in a statement that we are consulting on bringing the treatment of online betting in line with other forms of online gambling to cut down on bureaucracy. It is not, they say, about increasing or decreasing rates.
