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JustCoolGene
01-31-2014, 05:51 PM
I have mixed feelings about this commercial. Do you expect to spend your life learning how to make money on Horse Racing NOW and also when you retire?

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7fmF/rosland-capital-race-track

Gene
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Overlay
01-31-2014, 05:57 PM
I can't get any audio. (I don't think the problem is on my end.)

Dave Schwartz
01-31-2014, 06:10 PM
Played fine here, OL.

VeryOldMan
01-31-2014, 06:26 PM
Played fine here, OL.

Here too.

The comparison is between using your retirement funds to bet on horse racing or to put it in silver and gold in the hands of a company willing to run that ad.

Yikes!

davew
01-31-2014, 06:29 PM
I don't really see the anti-horse racing issue. You also need to consider the source - Rosalind Capital is pushing precious metals and have high commissions on both the buy and sell side. They are implying gold and silver are safe investments, and they are not.

I am sure all of us here could make an anti-racing video with break-downs or questionable management practices that would make peta.proud.

NTamm1215
01-31-2014, 06:29 PM
What an outrageously stupid commercial.

Greyfox
01-31-2014, 06:32 PM
The ad seems to have mixed messages.
At the very end this dude seems to be the owner of a horse who just won, or how else would he be out there with the horse?

RacingFan1992
01-31-2014, 06:33 PM
The title of this thread can be taken in many different ways. I thought it was going to be one of those commercials saying "do you love animals," "do you hate seeing animal being tortured," and so and then go on to say that each year so many horses breakdown, so many go to slaughter and blah blah blah. I mean I have a neutral state on this subject but I am glad that this commercial was not what I thought it was. A lot of those commercials are biased to get to peoples feelings. How about how many horses go to live at places like Old Friends Retirement home or something that has both sides of the issue but that would make the commercial invalid.

JustRalph
01-31-2014, 08:38 PM
It's not anti racing. It's pro gold and silver.

It does recognize and relies on the publics knowledge that playing the ponies is an up and down game. I actually thought it portrayed the racing as lots of fun. The people seemed to be having fun.

jk3521
01-31-2014, 08:55 PM
Yeah, but he( William Devane) took the money to play a part in "50-1"!

jk3521
01-31-2014, 08:57 PM
http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=People&searchType=O&eID=1497080

Probably not the same guy.

thaskalos
01-31-2014, 08:57 PM
I particularly liked the part where the torn mutuel tickets are thrown up in the air as the horses cross the finish line. :)

Not a bad commercial, IMO. There is some truth to it.

jk3521
01-31-2014, 08:59 PM
I particularly liked the part where the torn mutuel tickets are thrown up in the air as the horses cross the finish line. :)

Not a bad commercial, IMO. There is some truth to it.
Hold all tickets!

Irish Boy
01-31-2014, 09:12 PM
If there's any industry more corrupt than horse racing, it's the precious metal industry.

Robert Goren
01-31-2014, 11:49 PM
If there's any industry more corrupt than horse racing, it's the precious metal industry.Amen to that.

dylbert
02-01-2014, 12:51 AM
Precious metals have fairly high 'takeout' when compared with many investments. Security & storage are two additional costs.

Thoroughbreds & silver remind me of Nelson Bunker Hunt from another era.

JohnGalt1
02-01-2014, 07:50 AM
To those who buy precious metals at their highs and sell when it falls in value, how does that do for your retirement?

Each race we handicap is a commodity. We gain profits or lose in minutes.

To each their own.

Redboard
02-01-2014, 11:50 AM
I don't really see it as a anti-racing thing - just a stupid commercial. At least they showed Santa Anita, not Atlantic City race course.

Billnewman
02-02-2014, 12:21 AM
It's comparing apples to oranges. Pari mutuel tickets aren't fungible.