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Originally Posted by thaskalos
Plus...whatever "national coverage" horseracing gets is more likely to REPEL the viewer, than it is to attract him to the game. Take the Kentucky Derby for instance...which is the year's most watched marquee race. What invariably happens in the Derby telecast is that several experts will explain and handicap the Derby beforehand, and offer their selections to the viewers as a "service". Alas...the nature of the game is such that these "expert selections" will lose the vast majority of the time...while some totally ignored horse eventually wins the year's most visable race. Watching this scenario play out...the "uninformed viewing public" -- whom the industry is trying to attract -- is likely to think that, since this game defies the predicting abilities of even the EXPERTS...then, it probably isn't something that the "uninformed" should be venturing in.
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Well, the favorite's been winning the Derby a lot in recent years. They were losing every year in the 1980's and 1990's.
