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Its going to go the way most big business models go in this country. The biggest and strongest will take over when the weaker fail. Like the Spectrums, Wal Marts and Amazons of the world. or in sports talk, the MLB, NHL, NBA and NFL. If it gets bad enough out of necessity they may form one Federation. That's the thing all of these tracks have been fighting against for years. If they had organized and split up racing space (calendar) and had separate divisions horse racing may have fared better. Baseball has the summer , minor leagues and it does well. If the cheaper horses were spread around like they used to do at fairs. Younger people are exposed and introduced to racing. Maybe families start showing up too. It will survive the handle is still big. The biggest City centers will race and Kentucky. Mid West, Arkansas and some other one or two. Florida, NY and California if they (CA) survive the politics of it and the scandals. Someone said this thread is 7 years old this has been coming for triple that. Gambling and deregulation started with the numbers. Racing should of took notice back then. Cause theres been a trend....numbers, casinos.....now sports. Theres only so many people that bet and they only have what they can. So you better offer something good cause the betting dollar is getting sliced and diced. People like us like the game and the challenge but that number is decreasing so its only close to headlines on the biggest days.
You can already see some are closing and a few others are barely holding on. Some are even taking the chance of suicide by changing rules at the absolute worst time.
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