This is a great bet. While I love to handicap, my parents when they go to the track don't. My mom loves Robby Alborado. She would love a bet like this and easily invest in this rather than skipping half the races like she does now. Her couple bucks won't save racing, but it is money the track would get that they aren't getting now and to me isn't that the whole point??
I can also see this as a very fun bet for tracks like Keeneland who get large groups down there for entertainment. We do all kinds of syndicates and I would love to be able to just tell our group one of our bigger bets is to root for jockey "X" in the last 7 races!
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