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Chart 9: Horseracing GGY Apr 2017-Mar 2020(£ m)
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Chart 10: Horseracing turnover Apr 2017-Mar 2020(£ m)
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Chart 11: UK online market GGY 2019 / 20 by quarter(£ m)
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In Chart 12 over the page we can see that quarter-on-quarter betting GGY dropped from £ 590.5m in the April to June quarter to £ 546.3m in July to September, a drop of 7.5 %. It then rebounded in the October through December quarter to £ 638.1m.
A similar but less pronounced pattern was seen in the gaming numbers, shown in Chart 13. Here the seasonal summer drop was a more modest 3.9 % and the subsequent quarterly rebound came in at 3.4 %.
THE START OF LOCKDOWN
As mentioned, while gambling in the year to March 2020 was largely pandemic-effect free, the quarterly figures do point to the impact of the first UK lockdown, which was officially announced right at the end of the period, on March 23( though prefigured a week earlier). More to the point, all English football was suspended from March 13, more than two weeks before the end of the reporting period.
The impact of the lockdown on the UK market will be more closely covered in the next section, but even in the figures for the year to March we can discern an effect on both the betting market and also the gaming verticals.
Unfortunately, we don’ t have prior quarterly figures for comparison but we can take a guess at the impact of the loss of two weeks-plus of sporting
February 2021