Jeff's right but takeout is only scratching the surface. if you want to cut down the interest in this sport this game sure has found the way. 3 breeders cups ago 1/3rd of the races were won by either Chad Brown, Bob Baffert and Wesley Ward.
the biggest asset this sport had was that the star of the sport was the horse, today its the trainer and only a few of them. people want to handicap horses, not trainers, the game got it in reverse these days.
one would have thought that the internet and computers could only help grow the game. so everyone tried computerized numbers that included pace and statistics. today those numbers mean squat, its the trainers that rule this game now not the numbers that people like to see. add in the takeout and the breakage and you have a real disaster.
this is the perfect way for this game to die a slow painful death.
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