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Originally Posted by lamboguy
as small as these fields are they will only get smaller with contraction. when you have to close up tracks all you have is a very unhealthy game that will eventually go kaput.
if you get rid of the smaller tracks you won't have any place to go with the horses that don't make the bigger circuits. if you have no place to go then people will stop buying horses, if they stop buying horses then the breeders will stop breeding them.
this is really a vicious circle that seems to be ending up in a death spiral .
40 years ago there were 25k people at a race track on a weekday afternoon and that was with a population 1/3 rd of what it is today. with all source marketing now in racing you have about 1/3rd the amount of people interested in the game.
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Who said anything about getting rid of just smaller tracks?
