Belinda Stronach Plan For Company’s Assets. We Believe In The Future Of Horse Racing
 

LOL @ Horse Racing and the never ending pursuit to get money from other entities . How about this. Promote the sport properly and put a quality product on the track. I hope the Native Tribes oppose this at every step . Thinking historical race machines are not slot machines is pathetic . They are not based on previous races . They are slot machines that portray a previous race. Plain and simple .

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Every time tracks get purse money from places other than betting, the importance of actual bettors of horse racing is diminished and hopes for an improved wagering product shrink.

Yet if there's not enough money coming from betting the eventual alternative is no horse racing at all.

Finding funding to modernize and bring more bread and circus to it could be the only way to get new blood in the game. Like the article says horse racing has sustainability issues. They need profits to renovate/add venues and advertise.

There needs to be more appeal for the recreational gamblers and attracting people to choose a day/night at the races over other forms of entertainent. Serious gamblers will just sign up on the online platforms and play multi tracks from home.

I'm not convinced that better wagering opportunities won't eventually follow with new blood and increased customer experience at the track. It could turn more casual players into frequent recreational players, more people to give a shit about the customer experience.

Completely agree. But, unless all the other tracks give it up then it's the only way for Ca. to stay in business.

On sort of a side note I could see the Indians and Tracks coming to some sort of agreement over Sports Betting being brick and mortar only. If they allowed the Indians to open sports bars/books in the city that took bets on horse racing AND had a limited number of slots in them then why couldn't Horse Racing do the same thing? In fact why couldn't the Indians put in Instant Racing machines and the Tracks slot machines if that is mutually agreed upon?

But yes, IMO it's better for Tracks to go out of business instead of being subsidized. Then the market would dictate where the last tracks standing would be and handle would be concentrated on those tracks.

Mark my words: The new horseracing laws will eventually be amended...and the racinos will be allowed to keep their casino privileges without having to offer any "live racing". This "historical racing" will be deemed good enough as a "replacement"...and the horsemen and jockeys will be out in the cold, along with the long-suffering horseplayers. That's why the tracks are advertising this new "Historical Racing" as something more than a slot-machine game. The tracks don't want to put up the exorbitant cost of running a live meet...and they are salivating over the low-cost profits that slot-wagering generates. If they could convince the politicians that there is a "skill" component to this historical racing...then this could replace live racing altogether in the near future...IMO.

The trainers now dream of the day when their horseracing purses will be wholly subsidized by the casino patrons...so they can collect their money without having to hear the endless complaints of the "degenerate horseplayers". But these trainers haven't taken the greed of the TRACKS and the POLITICIANS into full consideration. If they did...then they would realize that we could ALL eventually be left out in the cold.

Yep, Robert Goren always had it right.....

His signature,

"Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will be betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".


PS- I miss his posts....Good Guy.

I miss him too. And it bothers me that he and I got into a somewhat heated argument about sports-betting just prior to his passing. I would have liked to have made up with him. :ThmbUp:

You were part of his experience. That's what he was here for. No?
It's OK.

It's funny, the "historical horse racing" machines are set up in the same spot at Santa Anita where Stronach's stupid "Horse Wizard" machines were set up 15 years ago. (The "Horse Wizard" signage is still up.)

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Uhhh, wait, what...they want to put beans running on a screen and call it "horse racing" for idiots who think slots actually pay out?

I used to play this game a lot as a kid...but I'd like to think I've moved on to grown-up gambling...


five just had a bad break I'm sure!

The horse racing industry calls us "addicted degenerates"...and we do what we can to prove them right. :ThmbUp:

Well until their happy hour specials beat drinking at home while betting online we'll never prove anything. There's something that's bigger than all of us going on here!

CJ...you could not be more correct. There has been such a shift in the dynamic...and the difference between horseracing and "racing horses" has never been bigger. It is really hard to like this game, sometimes.