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I have been researching and playing this game seriously since 1982...and I dare say that few people here have pushed as much money through the betting windows as I have. I've had a passion for this game all along...and it hurts me to say things that label me as a "hater" of this game, or as some sort of "conspiracy theorist". But, IMO, this game is so overrun by fraud and incompetence that I can't believe anything that anyone tells me when it comes to the game's "integrity", or lack thereof.
Financial woes have sent the horse racing industry begging to the politicians for casino licences...and the grandstands are empty during the racing meets of the most renowned tracks in the land. And the industry has had to roll out the red carpet for some well-heeled Wall-Street boys, who are now allowed to wreak havoc on the tote board to the detriment of the rest of us. In the absence of a unified governing body...who knows what kind of bargain a "Whale" can strike for himself...when he promises to infuse an astronomical amount of money into the mutuel pools, during the "troubled times" that our game currently finds itself in?
When things get desperate, even an HONEST business enterprise has a difficult time maintaining its virtue. Imagine what can happen if the enterprise is dishonest to begin with...
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"Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why."
-- Hermann Hesse
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