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11-12-2014, 09:45 PM
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Buckle Up
Join Date: Apr 2014
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
No admission at Lone Star race book. Unless you want private desk $3. Electricity and private TV. Dedicated wait staff
Good food and great bars at a slightly elevated price, but nothing outrageous at all. Very polite staff and even better wait staff. For 10-12 bucks plus a tip I get the desk for the day, nice hearty size lunch (Really good Chicken Tenders and French Fries) and free refills on iced tea or Pepsi. Beats the hell out of every other race book or track I've attended. Except maybe years ago when you could get in a club house room at Sam Houston for $15 bucks and have the buffet and non alcoholic drinks on a Saturday with private tellers too.
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Sounds like a good deal, Ralph. It blows my mind that the state of Texas was the host of the Breeders cup at Lone Star Park, which totally sold-out, just 10 short years ago, and now horse racing in Texas unravels like this? Do Texans love horse racing?.........Read the article below from 2004.....
http://www.theracingjournal.com/news...article_id=126
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11-12-2014, 09:53 PM
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#92
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EXCEL with SUPERFECTAS
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by ReplayRandall
Sounds like a good deal, Ralph. It blows my mind that the state of Texas was the host of the Breeders cup at Lone Star Park, which totally sold-out, just 10 short years ago, and now horse racing in Texas unravels like this? Do Texans love horse racing?.........Read the article below from 2004.....
http://www.theracingjournal.com/news...article_id=126 |
Texans love gambling period! There are so many gambling dollars in this state it would make your head swim to see the numbers. And the state just keeps sending it out of state, or out of the country.
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11-12-2014, 10:33 PM
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#93
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
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I was glad to see the female judge rule that the TRC over stepped their authority and that the legislature is responsible for approving the HRT's.
They have to be pissed. haha.
just keep letting that money go out state …...
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11-14-2014, 05:49 PM
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Journeyman
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 73
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
No admission at Lone Star race book. Unless you want private desk $3. Electricity and private TV. Dedicated wait staff
Good food and great bars at a slightly elevated price, but nothing outrageous at all. Very polite staff and even better wait staff. For 10-12 bucks plus a tip I get the desk for the day, nice hearty size lunch (Really good Chicken Tenders and French Fries) and free refills on iced tea or Pepsi. Beats the hell out of every other race book or track I've attended. Except maybe years ago when you could get in a club house room at Sam Houston for $15 bucks and have the buffet and non alcoholic drinks on a Saturday with private tellers too.
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You sold me on chicken tenders and free refills. Where do I sign up?
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11-14-2014, 06:35 PM
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EXCEL with SUPERFECTAS
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by Maxximus
You sold me on chicken tenders and free refills. Where do I sign up?
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Heck, if I want chicken tenders there's a place right down the road, why drive an hour and a half to the track? 
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11-14-2014, 07:01 PM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
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Originally Posted by Maxximus
You sold me on chicken tenders and free refills. Where do I sign up?
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Oh yeah....parking is free
Though you do have to walk a hundred yards to the door
Valet is $5 plus tip but they are slow as hell, so I stopped using them.
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11-15-2014, 12:29 AM
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Journeyman
Join Date: Apr 2011
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Originally Posted by raybo
Heck, if I want chicken tenders there's a place right down the road, why drive an hour and a half to the track? |
I was being sarcastic of course. I am not going to be sold on going to a track on chicken tenders and pepsi especially when it costs 12 bucks. Yet the tracks think dollar hot dogs and beers are a great promotional technique to bring in cheapskates.
Texas tracks should stop simulcasting all together and offer it through in-state ADW ONLY. This way they dont have to pay for the cook to fry up the chicken tenders at the track. Not to mention the person who collects money for admission, programs, other concessions, custodial staff, etc. Only use them for live racing days.
With the ADW they can offer rebates in the form of Chicken Tender coupons for our favorite place down the street.
Last edited by Maxximus; 11-15-2014 at 12:31 AM.
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12-03-2014, 11:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 752
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Originally Posted by Maxximus
I was being sarcastic of course. I am not going to be sold on going to a track on chicken tenders and pepsi especially when it costs 12 bucks. Yet the tracks think dollar hot dogs and beers are a great promotional technique to bring in cheapskates.
Texas tracks should stop simulcasting all together and offer it through in-state ADW ONLY. This way they dont have to pay for the cook to fry up the chicken tenders at the track. Not to mention the person who collects money for admission, programs, other concessions, custodial staff, etc. Only use them for live racing days.
With the ADW they can offer rebates in the form of Chicken Tender coupons for our favorite place down the street.
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Why the Texas racetracks haven't formed an ADW is the million dollar question.
However, TX is so backwards that the tracks can't offer contests with live money components or entry fees after being prohibited from doing so by the Department of Public Safety. It's mind boggling.
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12-04-2014, 05:02 AM
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Racing Form Detective
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Lincoln, Ne but my heart is at Santa Anita
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Originally Posted by NTamm1215
Why the Texas racetracks haven't formed an ADW is the million dollar question.
However, TX is so backwards that the tracks can't offer contests with live money components or entry fees after being prohibited from doing so by the Department of Public Safety. It's mind boggling.
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From the most pro business state in the country. 
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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12-04-2014, 01:05 PM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
Posts: 52,813
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Originally Posted by Robert Goren
From the most pro business state in the country. |
diggin deep to go after Texas aren't you? You realize Horse racing is not exactly a big issue comparatively speaking?
take a pill robert.........
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12-04-2014, 01:35 PM
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EXCEL with SUPERFECTAS
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 10,206
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Originally Posted by Robert Goren
From the most pro business state in the country. |
Yeah, pro-business, pro- BIG business, not a 3 track racing business in the 2nd largest state in the Union! Oh yeah, and forget about their concern for the average citizen, they couldn't care less.
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12-23-2014, 10:35 PM
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#102
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
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I have heard Bovada.com is a good site for playing horses while living in Texas. Have not seen little negativity about it and the rebates seem good
Has anybody heard or experienced this site?
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