Make caption generic please - SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 08: A Brown Filly on account of Yulong is lead before auction during the Easter Yearling Sales at Warwick Farm on April 08, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)
The Horse and Greyhound Fund is closing in on its 25th birthday and has long since moved from stimulus to subsidy. If the original broad economic push transformed Irish racing, reliance on State funding looks more like dependence with each passing year.
It’s why the Government’s recent budget decision to freeze its 2026 allocation at €79.3 million has prompted unease. Dutiful public noises of gratitude were made but privately there’s no little resentment, enough in fact to apparently make Donald Trump look good.
The orange grotesque in the White House is busy tearing up democratic conventions and threatening global stability.
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