Quote:
Originally Posted by Poindexter
You want new blood, but give them a game...
There is a better way
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Difficult to figure out who will
wake-up first:
the collective Pace Advantage crowd, or the track managers across the continent.
(has zero to do with Poindexter, FYI - I just borrowed his words)
The attraction to the Computerized-wagering groups and to the rebate shops need only be reversed in plain sight, at every track and OTB in the land, by making the horse race wagering game more appealing to
everyone at the same time.
Parimutuel wagering is racing's strength... and its grand difference from all of the rest of the competition for the gambling dollar.
So
once and for all, racing must begin to play to its strength for the first time in our collective lifetimes (though only possible during the past 30-ish years).
To continue to ignore the obvious is to allow horse racing pools to continue to be dominated by computers, each doing to you all what you've been collectively doing to others for decades. Your double-standards are constantly amusing.
Horse racing in North America must simply
DO something for its collective fanbase (that means evvvvvvvvvvverybody) for the first time in racing's existence.
After decades/centuries of a free ride, merely standing around with its hand out, horse racing need only begin to DO SOMETHING for its collective fanbase to turn the corner, altering the equation unfavorably for the rebaters and the computerized value-players at the same time.
Late odds changes will return to the land of the wholly irrelevant once you put the public on the *live* horses to begin with.
It is THAT simple... and it is something which should have been done in 1990. Racing opened up this window of opportunity nearly a third of a century ago, and then did nothing for the collective public while a few opportunists took the bulk of the money.
The equation hasn't changed one iota in 3 decades even though HANA has materialized and seemingly died a predictable death without bothering to address the obvious equation.
