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Originally Posted by AskinHaskin
So now we've heard from HANA and its head cheerleader.
And we're supposed to be taking lessons when HANA cratered
well before any of this.
Hawthorne still won't come out and summarize its 2023 bloodbath resulting from the takeout cut.
Can't wait to see the daily Hawthorne touts on whatever remains of the HANA website.
And this line above couldn't be more inaccurate.
The entire reason California racing is on the fast track to oblivion is the tracks themselves.
Overlay the way horse racing is run across the continent (and especially at Stronach/1st headquarters) upon the greater society at large:
You'd have a scenario wherein copper thieves were in the advanced stages of rendering infrastructure like trains, traffic signals, websites and airports largely useless.
At 1st/Racing headquarters you'd have Belinda Stronach at the front door selling opportunities to the copper thieves (at $40K a whack, somebody reported here).
That is to point out what should have been glaringly obvious (to all but those with the HANA mentality), that horse racing itself is being entirely besieged by what are mere opportunists, each of whom were invited by the tracks themselves to help themselves to the innate value of all things horse racing.
Any middle school student should be able to recognize that if you are being besieged by opportunists who are milking you dry at 20-25% takeout, the very last move you'd want to make would be to lower the bar for the opportunists.
That is akin to government employees now leaving the doors to the copper wiring infrastructure open at night for the sole use and convenience of the opportunists.
The clueless perspectives put forth by others in this thread to this point are akin to people in Sacramento lobbying on behalf of the opportunists!!!
Pause to invoke the words of HANA's head cheerleader:
The rest of the society at large has no interest in participating in the shell game which Belinda Stronach and her ilk have created. Do you ever walk past a shell game and see anyone (aside from perhaps HANA cheerleaders) participating while simultaneously knowing that a shell game is ongoing there?
This has been the case since the very beginning of Stronach involvement with California racing. Rather than set racing on a proper course very early, as she should have done, Belinda Stronach and her ilk have instead decided to sell opportunities to the opportunists who are choking her out. The princely sums of immediate revenue from those sales akin to a near-term Band Aid to offset shortfalls which have been entirely a function of her own unending stupidity.
Now sadly such stupidity has had the disastrous effect of reducing on-site crowds to the unknowing and the unwitting while "B.S." simultaneously continues to do nothing to bolster any prayer those on-site participants have.
Anyone who passed middle school math classes should be able to ascertain that the number one move by race tracks in 2024 should be to do all in their power to bolster the diminished hopes of the on-track wagering crowds. Instead, of course, those tracks continue their long tradition of doing precisely zero for their customers while ostensibly promoting a racing product that has long been provided by the independent contractors in those barns over yonder.
As has been underscored time and again by multiple sources, racegoers in largest numbers "do not even know about takeout". Ergo they clearly DNGAF about takeout.
Takeout reductions only assist the opportunists who are and have been chewing racing to its core for decades along with every remaining HANA clown who hasn't scurried back beneath the rock from which he originated.
Race tracks must first reverse the effects of their own stupidity exacted upon the surrounding societies over decades before bothering with any future planning.
Hell, in the 1980's, the takeout/tax revenue gained by the state of California was upward of $100 Million a year. ($129M in 1983 to $131M in 1989).
A recent report cites the total track/associations' commission in the 2022/23 fiscal year as having been $104M. (that means the associations at SA, Dmr, Los Al, GG, and the fairs put together got $104M from the wagering dollar)
Just how much do you think goes to the state of California these days?
No wonder the state doesn't care at all that Santa Anita and all other race tracks are in the process of self-destructing beneath the weight of their own stupidity across decades of time. Why should state government care anymore?
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So sayeth the Haskin impersonator who hasn't produced a single idea in almost a decade, other than, go back to the way things were in the 1950s wagering-wise...
Because THAT'S why the stands were full back then, right "Haskin???"
But keep criticizing everyone else...it's such an easy thing to do...you're like the guy on here who pretends he has a winning "use the tote-board only' method...all talk, with little proof to back up anything you say.
