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Originally Posted by cj
It would be nice if our really good horses stuck around, but I'm not sure it would really help racing all that much if they did. For example, how many of the Zenyatta fans (the new ones, not long time racing fans) do people think stuck around and are bettors now? The game needs to figure out a way to make the gambling part attractive. That will grow the game.
Horses come and go and in the grand scheme of things a few stars sticking around for another year or two isn't going to matter much IMO, especially given how little they race when kept in training anyway.
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If it regularly happened it would help a lot, because star horses generate a ton of sustained press coverage.
Since it only happens these days as a one-off, it doesn't help as much.
