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bourne Cup.
"We're competing not only in a national
market but in an international market––we're
competing to get the big horses from around
the world to highlight our racing," says Lord
Grimthorpe.
"We're very conscious of is what I call the
virtuous circle: if you get good prize-money
you get good horses and if you get good hors-
es you get good people. If you get good peo-
ple you have to have good facilities and if you
have good facilities you've got to have good
prize-money. You can't fall down on any one
of those things. For York, that's the essence
of what we're trying to achieve. The Knave-
smire is leased to the York Race Committee
by the local council so we are lucky from that
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back into prize-money and facilities––there
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are for the purity of the sport."
