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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