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Possible opportunity for someone.

  • 13-11-2007 9:58am
    #1
    nilhg
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    When myself and herself went away for a few days recently the pub we went to for a few drinks each evening was owned by a racehorse owner, and he had loads of pictures all over the place of his horses racing. You probably know the sort of thing, the horse jumps the last, passes the finish line, the triumphant owner leads his horse into the winners enclosure and the presentation, he had them all, professionally taken framed and mounted.

    Then on Sunday evening I went to my local dog track for the final of the Newbridge Oaks, which had €17,000 in prizemoney and there was another €13,000 for the supporting card. On my way home I realised that the only photographer there was a local guy hired in by the track to take the presentations for the local papers. This morning I had a quick skim through the 2 trade papers and there is only one action photograph in either of them all the rest are presentations.

    Steve Nash does the type of thing I am thinking of in the UK but I am pretty sure there is nobody here doing anything similar.

    My feeling is that there is enough of a market out there for somebody with the right gear and enough ability to make it worth while checking this out. Maybe you would need to be interested in the dogs to make it work, certainly it would take a while to get up and running but there is a lot of money and a lot of wealthy people involved in the greyhound game at the moment.


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  • #2
    jameshayes
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    Very good idea... but there is only a select number of papers that dogs pop up in... Racing post etc... I dont mean to squash your idea but maybe there isn't that much of an audience... I could be wrong tho, and you may wave your millions in my face when it works out!


  • #3
    nilhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,185 ✭✭✭nilhg


    jameshayes wrote: »
    Very good idea... but there is only a select number of papers that dogs pop up in... Racing post etc... I dont mean to squash your idea but maybe there isn't that much of an audience... I could be wrong tho, and you may wave your millions in my face when it works out!

    It wont be me, I'm too old for that:p

    There's two trade papers published here every week the Greyhound Weekly and The Sporting Press, both sell well.

    The markets I think are there are 1: the owners, not the little fellas like me but the lads who regularly pay out 20K+ for dogs. 2: the trade papers and the ones in the UK. 3: the studmasters, those guys advertise like mad and need to keep things fresh (the top stud dogs can turn over 5K a week).

    Somebody will eventually do this.


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