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Over 22,000 present for the Derby

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Published at Jun 30, 2012, 20:25

The crowd at the Curragh for Derby Day was 22,311, up 502 on last year.

Meanwhile the Tote aggregate of €1,062,199 was up from €630,685 a year ago. It was reportedly boosted significantly by input into the pools from France.

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