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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
Racing is at a huge competitive disadvantage in a lot of ways, not least of which is the take. Racetracks need the take just to put on the show. Sports are making money off TV deals, merchandise sales, ticket and parking sales, food sales etc... Gambling is different revenue stream. The take can be, and is, much lower.
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That really isn't accurate.
Rather, racing is just collectively too stupid to recognize its own advantage and play to its strengths rather than always playing to its weaknesses.
"psssst... hey, lets get some media coverage... we'll talk about that microscopic drug overage over there... or the fact that some horses die every year... I know, lets declare the downhill turf course unsafe after some idiot jockey move (that happens) on dirt" (you can't make that stupidity up)
As for the print DRF... it's like printed porn:
porn is among the most thriving industries on earth, and yet the only people still paying for printed porn are ancient luddites who, despite their dwindling numbers and dwindling incomes, must foot the largest share of the costs of printed porn to offset the fact that almost nobody else is buying it.
(so the raw cost of print DRF has become mostly an insignificant side factor with the industry going on all around it) (tangentially speaking: "porn is everywhere") (just
evolve... )
