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Originally Posted by Bustin Stones
In as much as this thread feels like it is swerving towards philosophy, i'd like to add this.
The takeout that we refer to unhappily is the juice that makes the whole thing possible. So many people are living their dream contributing to the caring for those horses. I believe our contributions are appreciated. And if our contributions paid all the bills we wouldn't need the casino industry to subsidize the sport. And the people who structured those subsidies deserve a vote of thanks as well. Elderly women at slot machines are in some ways financing the horse racing industry.
It may be a little selfish and greedy to consider only how that takeout effects us.
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You miss the only vital point. Eliminating rebates and pricing this game properly will make the sport thrive not hang on life support feeding off of other forms of gambling and other government charity. So your perception is thank Goodness we have little old lady playing slot machines so that crumbs can trickle down the the racing industry. My perception is fix the game so that the racing industry is self supporting. Then maybe the old lady playing slot machines might make her way over to the track and play the horses instead and whether she does or not there will be plenty of crossover advantage gamblers that will.
You seriously think it is a good thing that this game survives off of a couple dozen teams at the expense of everyone else playing it (if they haven't already quit). You think it is wise with advantage gambling thriving, racing has zero interest in appealing to advantage gamblers?
