{"id":6670,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.comnews\/arao-and-saga-racetracks-to-conduced-exchange-races\/"},"modified":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","slug":"arao-and-saga-racetracks-to-conduced-exchange-races","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/arao-and-saga-racetracks-to-conduced-exchange-races\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Arao and Saga Racetracks to Conduced Exchange Races <!--:--><!--:ja-->Arao and Saga Racetracks to Conduced Exchange Races <!--:--><!--:ko-->Arao and Saga Racetracks to Conduced Exchange Races <!--:--><!--:zh-->Arao and Saga Racetracks to Conduced Exchange Races <!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The local government-owned racetracks in Tosu, Saga Prefecture and Arao, Kumamoto Prefecture, have agreed to have so-called \u201cexchange races\u201d five times a month, in which the jockeys and horses at each track will race at the other track. The object is to reduce the operating costs accounted for by jockey salaries and the horses\u2019 upkeep by sharing them. For many years, racetracks were an important revenue source for local governments, but their profitability has declined with the diversification of leisure time activities, and some have gone out of business. The National Association of Racing says this is the first arrangement of its type in the country.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ja--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The local government-owned racetracks in Tosu, Saga Prefecture and Arao, Kumamoto Prefecture, have agreed to have so-called \u201cexchange races\u201d five times a month, in which the jockeys and horses at each track will race at the other track. The object is to reduce the operating costs accounted for by jockey salaries and the horses\u2019 upkeep by sharing them. For many years, racetracks were an important revenue source for local governments, but their profitability has declined with the diversification of leisure time activities, and some have gone out of business. The National Association of Racing says this is the first arrangement of its type in the country.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:ko--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The local government-owned racetracks in Tosu, Saga Prefecture and Arao, Kumamoto Prefecture, have agreed to have so-called \u201cexchange races\u201d five times a month, in which the jockeys and horses at each track will race at the other track. The object is to reduce the operating costs accounted for by jockey salaries and the horses\u2019 upkeep by sharing them. For many years, racetracks were an important revenue source for local governments, but their profitability has declined with the diversification of leisure time activities, and some have gone out of business. The National Association of Racing says this is the first arrangement of its type in the country.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><!--:zh--><\/p>\n<div id=\"body\">\n<div id=\"img_area\">\n<div id=\"img\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The local government-owned racetracks in Tosu, Saga Prefecture and Arao, Kumamoto Prefecture, have agreed to have so-called \u201cexchange races\u201d five times a month, in which the jockeys and horses at each track will race at the other track. The object is to reduce the operating costs accounted for by jockey salaries and the horses\u2019 upkeep by sharing them. For many years, racetracks were an important revenue source for local governments, but their profitability has declined with the diversification of leisure time activities, and some have gone out of business. The National Association of Racing says this is the first arrangement of its type in the country.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local government-owned racetracks in Tosu, Saga Prefecture and Arao, Kumamoto Prefecture, have agreed to have so-called \u201cexchange races\u201d five times a month, in which the jockeys and horses at each track will race at the other track. The object is to reduce the operating costs accounted for by jockey salaries and the horses\u2019 upkeep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-6670","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}