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Originally Posted by castaway01
Again, they have contracts to prioritize tracks, and whatever you think of Stronach, he has a lot of pull because he owns a lot of tracks. You're complaining about stuff as if it's ignorance on their part but these are not spur-of-the-moment decisions.
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It is totally ignorance and incompetence on the part of TVG and anyone arguing otherwise has never been in a business environment in any line of work. When TVG's higher ups were negotiating the contract with Stronach, they clearly got destroyed at the table. A second year finance major would have negotiated 100 times better.
If you run the "premier" horse racing network/ADW in the country, you CANNOT allow race 2, a 10kN2L claimer at Golden Gate Fields, to supersede the last race at Belmont or Saratoga. It's simply a nonstarter, should never be on a contract signed by TVG. NYRA's last race routinely has 15-25 times as much money depending on the outcome than GGF's 2nd race. To show GGF's race is to piss off 85-95 percent of the people watching your station and betting through your ADW. NO WELL RUN COMPANY WOULD DO THIS!
They got their pants pulled down at the negotiating table with Stronach and deserve every bit of criticism they get for their incompetence.
