If the game dies...what would you do? [Archive] - Horse Racing Forum - PaceAdvantage.Com

only11

07-09-2010, 06:22 PM

Reading these threads have made me wonder what would i be doing if there wasnt any racing?

1_talk to my wife more..
2_collect stamps
3_bet sports

I couldnt imagine..what would you be doing?

07-09-2010, 06:24 PM

Play more golf.

FantasticDan

07-09-2010, 06:30 PM

I couldnt imagine..what would you be doing?
Saving a lot of !@&$ money ;)

Hedevar

07-09-2010, 06:43 PM

Spend more time analyzing and trading stocks.

Hanover1

07-09-2010, 06:45 PM

umm.....bag groceries?

only11

07-09-2010, 06:46 PM

christ...!

csperberg

07-09-2010, 06:46 PM

move to Japan and play the JRA races

David-LV

07-09-2010, 06:47 PM

Try again my old first love by becoming the oldest major league baseball player at 71 years old and playing for The Brooklyn Dodgers. :):jump:

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David-LV

Stillriledup

07-09-2010, 06:47 PM

I'd bet harness racing.

thaskalos

07-09-2010, 07:06 PM

Re-discover my family...

Robert Fischer

07-09-2010, 07:19 PM

science, technology
go/weiqi

Dave Schwartz

07-09-2010, 07:34 PM

only11

07-09-2010, 07:37 PM

Dave top ten tracks that will survive?
Top ten surprise tracks that may close?

Im hoping this great game survives..

OTM Al

07-09-2010, 07:49 PM

This game will die about the same time as the oft buried baseball. Of course if it does happen I no longer will have to hear this sort of talk, so that may in itself be a bonus

arno

07-09-2010, 08:39 PM

Play dice baseball

thespaah

07-09-2010, 08:44 PM

Reading these threads have made me wonder what would i be doing if there wasnt any racing?

1_talk to my wife more..
2_collect stamps
3_bet sports

I couldnt imagine..what would you be doing?
Do what I could to help rebuild it.

dansan

07-09-2010, 08:50 PM

learn how to handicap overseas but i doubt it will perish in next 20 years :confused:

miesque

07-09-2010, 09:36 PM

The game is not going to die, but some of its tracks certainly will.

My belief is that the game will contract and then be re-born as a single business entity. It could be Magna or CDi that pulls this off, but not without a lot of directional change.

Some will be smart enough to re-invent themselves. We (HorseStreet) have to do the same thing. The HorseStreet operation six months from now will probably be quite different from what we are now.

Adapt or die. It is that simple.

I agree that that game is not going to die, but it is possible that it could be dramatically different in the future as there will almost assuredly be material changes.

If the game were to die (or become completely unpalatable) I guess I would go back to playing polo or maybe finally learn to play hockey.

comet52

07-09-2010, 09:48 PM

I'll play that horse race game at the state fair, where you keep pushing the button to make your horse go around the fastest. Then I'll win a big stuffed animal instead of $3.20 on a 3/5 drug addled nag.

JustRalph

07-09-2010, 10:13 PM

I guess I would have to find another damn girlfriend.......... :bang:

ernie simons

07-09-2010, 10:29 PM

I would definately go back into the Mexican Navy.
Had I stayed in and gone thru their 2 weeks of intense officer training, I woulda been a General by now. At least a Colonel anyway.

LutherCalvin

07-09-2010, 10:44 PM

I'd become a Biblical Scholar. It's easier to comprehend the Bible than the form cycle of horses.

Tee

07-09-2010, 11:16 PM

One more vote for play more golf.

More poker & pool as well.

Judging by the above, the game is about dead for me anyway. ;)

Cardus

07-09-2010, 11:24 PM

Try to decipher Winter Triangle's posts.

jballscalls

07-09-2010, 11:26 PM

do sports talk radio

Robert Goren

07-09-2010, 11:30 PM

Actor

07-09-2010, 11:55 PM

Chess.

The only other game that comes close to being as challenging.

Zaf

07-10-2010, 12:10 AM

Play more golf, sounds good to me.

Z

JustRalph

07-10-2010, 12:20 AM

I would play online poker. Most of us would move to some other form of gambling because we are gamblers. The real question is what if they shut down online gambling period? I guess I could take up bridge again.;)

I play a little poker, but I wouldn't play any other gambling. And Online poker, no way!

I play the horses because it is different. I love the challenge. I don't play and have never played Blackjack or Craps or anything else in spite of spending plenty of time in Vegas over the years. I spent it in the race book.

Buckeye

07-10-2010, 12:26 AM

Unfortunately the Game has already died.

Sorry to tell you all that.

What's left if not a game, it's very serious.

Buckeye

07-10-2010, 12:31 AM

who am I to speak the truth?

Let's just start with the fact that almost NO body is involved (from the mainstream) in what we may call a sport. They just don't participate. That sounds like a "problem" to me.

therussmeister

07-10-2010, 12:41 AM

Get a real job. Maybe become a ticket taker at the local cineplex.

Robert Goren

07-10-2010, 12:57 AM

I play a little poker, but I wouldn't play any other gambling. And Online poker, no way!

I play the horses because it is different. I love the challenge. I don't play and have never played Blackjack or Craps or anything else in spite of spending plenty of time in Vegas over the years. I spent it in the race book. You are a rare bird and I mean that in a good way.

PhantomOnTour

07-10-2010, 12:59 AM

I would finally learn to play a musical instrument. I am listening to music constantly and love just about everything but Top 40...anyone ever listen to Widespread Panic?

Igeteven

07-10-2010, 01:10 AM

magwell

07-10-2010, 01:27 AM

If racing went down the tubes, guess I would have more time to drink and party with wild women at least we know that will never go out style......:cool:

Bruddah

07-10-2010, 01:28 AM

I'd put a gas engine on a walker and chase younger ladies. Run ladies run!!

Robert Fischer

07-10-2010, 01:31 AM

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. :)

cnollfan

07-10-2010, 01:32 AM

I would play the piano.

illinoisbred

07-10-2010, 07:03 AM

Learn to play the violin-have one just never found anybody that could teach me. Hopefully get good enough to play 1st chair in a retirement home orchestra 25 years from now.

BlueShoe

07-10-2010, 08:55 AM

Start my own business. I would open up a flight school for Dodo Birds. Could make a lot of money teaching them how to fly.:cool:

5k-claim

07-10-2010, 09:16 AM

Standardbreds? Hunt seat? Western?

I know the people heavily involved in other horse sports believe them to be just as exciting as racing, and maybe they are once you get into them, but I would just as soon not be forced to ever find out.

My goal is to end up like the man who was my mentor (and who I still work with every day and has become like a grandfather to me). He has always been strictly small-time, but after 50 years in the sport he is today 74 and still gets up before 4:00am every day to head to the barn, still handles any kind of horse, gets excited by a new 2 year-old, loads hay and straw, and is absolutely as tough as nails (I would back him with a bet in arm-wrestling against half the posters on this forum-- any age.) Watching him stay at it every morning is a real kick in the pants to me, because I am not convinced that I am even as tough as him today, much less when I get to be his age.

Long live horse racing!

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joanied

07-10-2010, 10:05 AM

I wouldn't be doing anything different that I am now...but there would be a huge hole in my life without racing...I'd spend time re living the good old days...I'd feel mighty sad about it....but...IMO...it ain't going no where. Changes, yes, less tracks, yes...but it will survive.

Robert Goren

07-10-2010, 10:29 AM

If nothing was happening by the next July
I'd roll myself up into a big ball and just die.;)

Hedevar

07-10-2010, 10:37 AM

If nothing was happening by the next July
I'd roll myself up into a big ball and just die.;)

Anything you say Frank.

thespaah

07-10-2010, 11:39 AM

I agree that that game is not going to die, but it is possible that it could be dramatically different in the future as there will almost assuredly be material changes.

If the game were to die (or become completely unpalatable) I guess I would go back to playing polo or maybe finally learn to play hockey.
Hockey....There ya go!!! I played for over 30 years. Great game.

nalley0710

07-10-2010, 01:12 PM

commodity futures trading. Similar game.

Steve 'StatMan'

07-10-2010, 01:33 PM

Cash in my retirement funds, and use the internet at the Library to make cheesy jokes on forums and argue about people about what was the great sport of throughbred horse racing. ;)

ronsmac

07-10-2010, 01:55 PM

Eventually the game is going to die. There are not enough young people in the game for it so sustain itself 15 or 20 yrs from now.

Hedevar

07-10-2010, 02:02 PM

commodity futures trading. Similar game.

You can go broke a lot quicker with the leverage.

GaryG

07-10-2010, 02:15 PM

I don't do any other gambling and know nothing about the stock market. I would just retire and travel. Maybe get to know Miss Judy better.....:eek:

Tom

07-10-2010, 04:05 PM

I thought it was already dead?
What did I miss?

But if it does die, what will PA do, put horses in OFF TOPIC? :D

Space Monkey

07-10-2010, 04:18 PM

There's always European, Australian, and Japanese racing.

fmhealth

07-10-2010, 08:52 PM

Spend even more time in the Options market. Very similar template using the DRF or WSJ. Only racing is probably more on the up & up.

plainolebill

07-10-2010, 11:00 PM

Play Borderlands.

Robert Goren

07-10-2010, 11:09 PM

Spend even more time in the Options market. Very similar template using the DRF or WSJ. Only racing is probably more on the up & up. There is no "probably" about it.

Kimsus

07-10-2010, 11:25 PM

Basketweave

shouldacoulda

07-11-2010, 05:04 AM

I would go back to woodworking. I make the best looking firewood you ever did see. :lol:

lamboguy

07-11-2010, 07:18 AM

The game is not going to die, but some of its tracks certainly will.

My belief is that the game will contract and then be re-born as a single business entity. It could be Magna or CDi that pulls this off, but not without a lot of directional change.

Some will be smart enough to re-invent themselves. We (HorseStreet) have to do the same thing. The HorseStreet operation six months from now will probably be quite different from what we are now.

Adapt or die. It is that simple.dave that idea probably wouldn't be such a bad idea. i say this all the time that all the raing game needs to thrive is accountability. with all the different state laws and different ownership of racetracks that can't agree on anything to make changes, churchill is probably the only solution. from the recent merger of ubet and rebate shop it seems like that is their ultimate game plan.

rastajenk

07-11-2010, 09:35 AM

Yay, let's all root for a monopoly!! :jump: That's always good for the consumer. :rolleyes:

Robert Goren

07-11-2010, 09:41 AM

Yay, let's all root for a monopoly!! :jump: That's always good for the consumer. :rolleyes::ThmbUp: Well put.

Dave Schwartz

07-11-2010, 11:02 AM

Monopoly... well, it has worked for the NFL and MLB.

lsosa54

07-11-2010, 11:05 AM

I'm already dealing with a monopoly in NJ and a poor one at that!

csperberg

07-11-2010, 03:07 PM

places like France, Hong Kong and Japan all have a monopoly in the horse racing industry and all three are very successful, way more successful in terms of numbers than we are

bettheoverlay

07-11-2010, 03:15 PM

I'd read alot more books. But I've been hearing doom and gloom all my life on just about everything, most things look down in a down economy, but they tend to rebound.

Valuist

07-11-2010, 03:18 PM

Definitely the market. 5 years ago I probably focused 5 times as much on horse race handicapping. Now I spend 5 times more on following the market than horse racing.

Bullet Plane

07-11-2010, 10:04 PM

Probably leave the country... with Great Britain the most likely place to settle down- wouldn't have to fight the language barrier there. Plus the freedom to place a bet on almost any corner- bookies. The beer is great over there too, to speak nothing of the fish and chips.

But I don't think it will come to that. I've been hearing for the last 20 years the game is going away. And still, I'm at it practically everyday.

There is no way that mankind can get separated from the equine spirit and sport of racing in my lifetime.

The bond between man and horse, and the question of who will win the horserace goes back - what a couple of thousand years, maybe more?

point given

07-11-2010, 10:36 PM

Start playing uncle franks Horse Wizards game that have been gathering dust in the basement, after the morning round of golf.

thaskalos

07-11-2010, 10:51 PM

I don't think that the outlook has ever been as bleak as it is right now.

It's easy to blame the economy...but there have been depressions and recessions before, and this game passed all those economic "tests" with flying colors. In fact, the game was considerd to be depression and recession proof.

Things appear to be really different this time...

A dwindling racehorse population - which is racing less frequently than ever before, an ever-declining national mutuel handle, illegal drugs, synthetic surfaces, together with leadership which defies description...

Tough to be an optimist if you are a horseplayer these days...