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Originally Posted by dilanesp
Why wouldn't Saratoga go up?
You have a track that wealthy people travel to as a vacation destination. Staying in the town is very expensive (and in fact dwarfs whatever people pay for admission). It is also, other than the Belmont Stakes, NYRA's only chance to realize significant revenue from live patrons. And Saratoga can probably make even more money they more they charge (up to a point), because it will price out poorer patrons which will give the track a wealthier "feel" as it is filled up with more and more good looking people wearing nice clothes and hats, etc. Plus the track is small and it gets crowded when more than 30,000 people are there anyway.
It's pretty obvious that the correct business model is to charge nothing for Aqueduct, very little for Belmont (except on Belmont day and on a Breeders' Cup if they ever get one again), and a ton for Saratoga. NYRA is following that business model. As they should.
Not every horse racing date is about the regular horseplayer.
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If they are old...instead of a senior discount they should get charged double
