Aussie startup giving the average Australian a chance to own a champion racehorse
miRunners executive director Chris Ryan spoke with Angela Castles of SmartCompany to get the word out: “crowdfunding for horses” will shape the future of Australian horse racing. We’re making it possible for hundreds of thousands of Australians to own a share in a thoroughbred. “We did some market research and worked out only eight per cent of people interested in racing participated as an owner,” Ryan says. “The affordability of high-level [racing] participation is out of most people’s reach. We thought, what if we could do something that was radically different?” Traditionally, horse-racing syndicates cost thousands of dollars to participate…