PTC Signs Deal with LA HBPA

[Premier Turf Club]

We are very pleased to have gotten this done and the signal will be back on our menu for Saturday. :)

http://news.bloodhorse.com/article/45315.htm

[ceejay]

Congrats, Ian. :jump:

LaD may have to spend some time in my "penalty box" but not much.

[sjk]

As a player who has used ADWs for over 12 years and who has been gradually losing access to tracks and as a horseman who can see the increased costs of keeping horses in training it is great to see that these things can be worked out.

[trying2win]

Good show Ian! :ThmbUp:. Will be nice to have Louisiana Downs on the PTC betting menu again shortly.


T2W

[pandy]

We are very pleased to have gotten this done and the signal will be back on our menu for Saturday. :)

http://news.bloodhorse.com/article/45315.htm

Good news, congrats.

[JustRalph]

As a player who has used ADWs for over 12 years and who has been gradually losing access to tracks and as a horseman who can see the increased costs of keeping horses in training it is great to see that these things can be worked out.

12 years? Who the hell did you use 12 years back? I didn't even know they existed back that far............

[alydar]

12 years? Who the hell did you use 12 years back? I didn't even know they existed back that far............

Try Philly Park and NYOTB

[GameTheory]

I used phone betting in California for years until they decided it was illegal, even though no laws changed. Ladbroke-Call-A-Bet anyone? I also used the original incarnation of the Canadian site from Woodbine, and a Capitol OTB account in NY. All from Los Angeles, and no one had a problem with it. I remember Capitol OTB had a betting terminal with a modem you could buy and hook up to your phone..

[lamboguy]

i wish LAD would run on wednesday's and thursdays, it would fill the void.


friday nights have become the toughest night to bet on horses, every track seems to be running then, around 7:30 i get an excederin headache every week!

[JustRalph]

Ian, is this the first little leak in the dam.....................??

[sjk]

12 years? Who the hell did you use 12 years back? I didn't even know they existed back that far............

Hi Ralph. I think I started with Call-a-Bet (now xpressbet) in 1996 and Youbet in 1998.

[Trax21]

Congratulations on the LAD deal. Good to see someone getting something positive done with everything else that's going on.

Just wondering, are these deals typically meet to meet? Annually? Multi-year? Confidential?

[Premier Turf Club]

Deals are typically meet to meet. All of PTC's contracts are except one, I think with Fort Erie.

Ian

[bob77713]

Ian,

Can a business entity, for example an LLC, open an account with PTC? If they can, do you still require a drivers license?

Thanks.

[Premier Turf Club]

A U.S. incorporated business entity with a taxpayer I.D. can open an account with PTC, though we don't have any at this time. We will need that ID, as well as a corporate resolution permitting the activity. I wagered as part of a syndicate a few years back, one that was registered in Florida.

Please feel free to contact me offline with any other questions.

[trying2win]

Now that PTC and YOU BET have signed deals with the LA HPBA, I wonder what Scott Daruty looked like when he heard this news? Maybe like this...:mad: ? And if he did look like that, I'm guessing a lot non TRACKNET bettors aren't feeling sorry for him. Them's the breaks Scott. I wonder if he's still saying something like ..."We'll show them!" to the THG group ?:lol:

[Kelso]

I wonder if he's still saying something like ..."We'll show them!" to the THG group?I suppose the answer to your wonder depends upon whose terms have been more closely approximated in the deals. My bet in the blind would be that the PTC and YB deals look a lot more like CDI's offer than THG's demand.

[CryingForTheHorses]

We are very pleased to have gotten this done and the signal will be back on our menu for Saturday. :)

http://news.bloodhorse.com/article/45315.htm


As a south florida horseman worried sick about losing horses to other tracks because of this ongoing battle about the ADW's,I have lost 4 so far.Im wondering has this proposal been presented to the florida horseman or CDI?.Its very sad when you have people working from 4am to whenever the job is done,Having other trainers watching horses run and the approaching the owners to get the horses to take away.Another thing that burns my ass is "Agents" having their jocks ride a horse and then trying to sell him to someone at another track.This kind of people are "scum" in my eyes.

[rrbauer]

As a south florida horseman worried sick about losing horses to other tracks because of this ongoing battle about the ADW's,I have lost 4 so far.Im wondering has this proposal been presented to the florida horseman or CDI?.Its very sad when you have people working from 4am to whenever the job is done,Having other trainers watching horses run and the approaching the owners to get the horses to take away.Another thing that burns my ass is "Agents" having their jocks ride a horse and then trying to sell him to someone at another track.This kind of people are "scum" in my eyes.

Sorry to see one of the good guys, Tom Schell, getting the dirty end of the stick in this deal.

[rrbauer]

I just looked at the charts at LAD for their races the past two Saturdays and I had 2 thoughts:
1. With some of those pools ($5K for P4, $2K to $4K for P3) I'm wondering why anyone would want to play there?
2. There must be some casino supplement to the purses....does anyone know what the formula is for funding the purse account?

[startngate]

2. There must be some casino supplement to the purses....does anyone know what the formula is for funding the purse account?Purses get 15% of the gross revenue, the thoroughbred breeders get 2% and the quarter horse breeders get 1%.

LA publishes the revenue information monthly.

https://web01.dps.louisiana.gov/lgcb.nsf/$Slots

[Kelso]

Purses get 15% of the gross revenue, the thoroughbred breeders get 2% and the quarter horse breeders get 1%.
And the horsemen ... along with their bought-and-paid-for political cronies ... made sure that the players get how much, exactly?

(I wonder - are there more horse players or more horsemen in Louisiana?)