The field charges for home in the 2025 Hollywoodbets Durban July (Picture: Hollywoodbets)
The World Pool is becoming an increasingly important aid to sustaining horseracing as it provides a financial “windfall” for the country who is staging the event and this is due to the massive pools that are generated by punters betting into them from around the globe.
Each race that is a world pool race will add to the financial boost and it is particularly important that the main race of the day is a World Pool race.
This year’s WSB Met meeting had ten World Pool races included for 12 race meeting.
That was up from seven World Pool races at the WSB Met meeting of 2025.
The Hollywoodbets Durban July meeting is likely to have a similar increase in coverage.
The World Pool apparently prefers fields of 15 or less to ensure uniform betting structures across jurisdictions, but it is able to cater for races with more runners.
It is apparently false that the Hollywodbets Durban July was not included last year as a World Pool race, despite the meeting being a World Pool event, because there were more than 15 runners.
Instead, it was apparently only due to technical difficulties that the race was ultimately not included.
It is also false that this year’s WSB Met was only included as a World Pool race because there were less than the 15 runner optimum.
The World Pool had catered for there being more than 15 WSB Met runners, but in the end it was not necessary due to the field size cutting up to eleven.
Likewise, the World Pool will cater for a maximum field of 18 runners for this year’s Hollywoodbets Durban July.
That is great news and punters will be looking forward to not only big dividends but stable dividends, so a horse showing a big price just before the off is not going to change by a significant amount of there is very late money for it.
