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Originally Posted by KingAnon
I like horse racing and wrestling, and both are dying and will eventually be dead. The interest is just not there and the media makes horse racing seem like a thoroughbred genocide to the average person. Within the next 50 years, there's only going to be a few tracks left, if its not completely barred. At least we will always have Japan and Hong Kong though.
I'm younger. I don't know anyone who watches horse racing, nor even know anyone who knows anyone who watches horse racing. People my age don't bet on horse racing, they bet on loot crates and gacha video games. And with all of the sports channels/sites promoting betting on games, it's going to be harder and harder as the older folks pass away.
I don't know how you reverse the trend or if you even can, but I know as a casual person, it didn't make any real strides during the lockdown.
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Betting on the ponies will be around in one form or another, probably not what the previous generations are used to. You probably won't have those giant race tracks with capacities for 40,000+ on land in expensive urban areas. It might be be one strictly catered to online betting on an Indian reservation attached to other types of gaming utilizing cheap desert land that would otherwise be unused. Overseas racing is doing relatively OK, so I don't see them going away either.
