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Originally Posted by thaskalos
It goes back to what some of us here have been saying about the incompetence of those who are in charge of this game. They horse racing industry sees that the existing fans are leaving this game in droves, but no real effort is made to present this game in a more "appealing" way to the younger generation...who have other gambling options available to them.
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Here is a novel idea...just so you don't think that I am all "whine" and no solution:
Many racetracks are flush with casino-generated profits, which have been used to push purses in some racing jurisdictions to the stratosphere...a technique that has done NOTHING to improve the game in any meaningful way. What if these tracks used some of that money to fund a weekly in-house handicapping tournament...with a generous prize-pool. They have the money, but they choose to hand it over to the trainers...without giving a DIME back to their much-maligned fans. Don't you think that a weekly in-house handicapping tournament with a serious prize-pool would generate some interest in those ghost-towns that our racetracks have become? Didn't the poker tournaments resurrect POKER...which had died long ago?
You rekindle people's interest with the tournaments, and then they'll come back for the "live action"...just as they've done with poker.
