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Lower Prices
Short fields are partly to blame.
Better handicappers (through software and the amount of information avaialable nowadays) is another.
Fewer lottery players is a third. Instead of playing their house number at the track, they play it in the state Lotto game.
The slots themselves are also partly to blame. People who don't do the work would rather stick the money in the machines than on a trifecta.
What we're left with are people who DO the work (or have the computer do it for them) and come up with mostly logical contenders. Since more money is bet logically than randomly, prices go down.
Then there are the horsemen who fix races, play the pharmaceutical game, and/or darken a horse's form to make a score, and they've gotten as greedy as all getout.
Larger fields would help.
Stronger enforcement for cheaters (i.e. lifetime bans) would help.
Not much can be done about the lottery or slot players.
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