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Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz
Dog,
There must be additional revenue sources!
Only those other revenue sources can take the pressure off the takeout.
Just my opinion.
Regards,
Dave Schwartz
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Intuitively you would expect that as states, tracks and horse owners gain additional revenue from the alternate gaming sources that we would see
some takeout reductions. That simply has not happened. And, I don't think you have to look any farther than the breakage issue to understand that IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN unless we as horseplayers bring so much pressure to bear on the other two "partners" that make up our game that it becomes a survival action to those partners.
We have NO STANDING with our other industry partners other than to provide money to generate revenue for them. Our money is our ONLY bargaining chip in this battle and if we don't take some action very soon even our money won't matter because our betting-handle-generated revenue source will have lost its importance as purses become funded from other sources.
