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Horses, courses

A big night at the Big Belly Club on the South Bank. And a subject we don't do often.

The business of horse racing was the heading. The resulting podcast is out today.

UP553 Live: The Business of Horse Racing
Podcast Episode · Unofficial Partner Podcast · 9 June · 57min

There's a bit in the middle, where I make a trite statement about how power works and why change is so hard, and Brant Dunshea the CEO of the British Horseracing Authority puts me quietly in my place. 'Gosh Richard, I'd never have known that'.

It made

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Forget MCOs, MAGs are the next problem

Why does private equity want to be a football agent?

That was a question posed by Daniel Geey on Other People's Money, our sports finance podcast series.

Jonathan Booker has written an interesting set of newsletters on this topic.

Good point here:

What is notable, and what warrants serious attention, is the scale at which this has now occurred in the world of football/soccer agency. For example, the mergers and/or acquisitions that saw American giant CAA bring together the UK behemoths Base and Stellar under the CAA ‘umbrella’, each of which were already individually amongst the most
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🤖 Why p/e is buying up talent agencies

🤖 Unofficial Briefing: Private Equity, Scale, and the Evolution of the Sports Talent Agency Market

Context: This briefing summarises a conversation examining the accelerating trend of consolidation and private equity (PE) investment in sports talent representation, analysing the financial drivers, operational challenges, and future direction of these scaled-up agencies. The series explores "sport and investment and, you know, money in a broader sense and its impact".


1. Market Consolidation and PE Investment

The sports agency sector is undergoing rapid corporatisation marked by significant consolidation. Recent examples include Bruin Capital purchasing four firms to form Nomi Sports/As

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