Simple message in the Thoroughbred Daily News today. Your handle went down, your revenue likely went down, and what you tried didn't work, so reverse the decision.
http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com...-did-not-work/
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Keeneland’s next move seems obvious. They should announce that they tried something, it didn’t work out as they had hoped and, therefore, the takeout level at the 2018 spring meet will return to the same levels that it was pre-increase. If nothing else, that would be a PR home run and turn the hats they have been wearing lately from black to white.
Let’s hope they don’t instead try to spin this as an experiment that did not work due to mitigating factors and one that deserves another chance. The 2016-versus-2017 numbers are apples to apples. And, if anything, all things being equal, the handle should have gone up. The main factor that drives handle is field size and the fields were larger at the 2017 fall meet than they were the year before. Keeneland averaged 9.2 starters per race at the meet as compared to 9.1 last year. While that’s a very small increase, it shoots down any arguments that handle was affected by some bad weather or some races coming off the grass.
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