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Originally Posted by VigorsTheGrey
You are right, and that is because I am a $5 bettor, and guess what, so are 95% of the customers buying the general racing product...it eventually becomes a turn- off for most of us little guys to be excluded from event after event because track administrators cater to Mr. Moneybags and Mr Shark and Whale and Mr. Syndicate all the time...and leave us feeling left out...and a bit envious of a group of players exchanging prizes with one another on an obviously unlevel playing field...can you understand that feeling...?
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ROFL - Truer words were never spoken.
This entire interaction is a microcosm of the industry which is slowly dying all around it.
Most horseplayers have never, and will never even consider entering one or more of those supposed
handicapping tournaments.
They are collectively run very poorly, and
most horseplayers can be collectively run aground on the rocky shores (of the
pools) during an average outing to any track in North America. They don't need to enter some special tournament to repeat that experience.
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Originally Posted by AndyC
No, I don't understand that feeling. The overwhelming majority of contests are designed for everybody. The track is not a charity, they are trying to run a business where catering to their biggest and best customers makes sense.
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The contests are NOT
designed for everybody. Why the heck should some lady visiting the races for her company outing once a year be confronted with a prerequisite that she
join the tour in order to play a simple contest?
People play various
office pools and/or
fantasy football/baseball without it being demanded of them that they join some secret
boys club in order to play.
One need only sort the names from most any handicapping contest in the land, along gender lines, to see data which clearly underscores that the contests are NOT
designed for everybody.
When contests are comprised in overwhelming majority of the minority members of the surrounding population base then it becomes clear very quickly that said contests are NOT
"designed for everybody".
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Originally Posted by VigorsTheGrey
You are making my point here...the biggest and best, by sheer numbers, and it IS numbers of individuals that ultimately drive the racing product, and without which we would not even have a game, are vast numbers of little guys, where else do you think the denizens of racing derive most of their profits....?
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The bettors who
drive the 2017 racing product aren't even relevant to the conversation. For they are merely
what's left after decades and decades of poor management decisions which have eroded the brightest among racegoers (who were inspired to find other forms of entertainment which are more
fair to them).
What remains is akin to viewing the NYC sewer system and being somehow
impressed by what are the largest rats who remain.
In order for the whole of horse racing to rebound and become more representative of the total population which surrounds it, those running racing will have to reverse decades of complete stupidity which has involved catering only to the large rats.
It has been that precise rat hole, and the selective choreography which has 2017 racing management and the largest rats deep within it and boring even deeper, which has come to represent what horse racing is, in the present. (the smarter folks among the fan base have walked away)
VigorsTheGrey is right...
He represents some of
the vast majority, who have been ignored and threatened with extinction as racing management instead courts the large rats who have dragged the industry to new lows year after year after year.
(now that might make some sense in a case where
the only way out wasn't
via the vast majority which have been rendered almost extinct at tracks around the land.)
But for management there is zero long-term upside to courting the rats at management's ultimate expense and that of everybody else.
My god, even the federal government has figured out:
"You Will Never Be Ignored Again"
(so now only modern day horse racing languishes as an entity which virtually ignores 98% of its base)
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Originally Posted by AndyC
I am not making your point. Every contest
shouldn't be about including the so-called little guy. You don't enter because you are NOT GOOD ENOUGH to play. Just the same as I am not good enough to play in the U S Open Golf Tournament.
I won't say racing derives profits but I will say that racing derives most of their revenues from the big players.
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Racing only "derives most of their (2017) revenues" from relatively big players
because its mindless policies and priorities have chased everyone else out of the fanbase.
The
only way that North American horse racing can recover from its own stupidity exercised over three decades now, is to direct its attention toward
everybody else beyond the
rats to whom it has exclusively catered over that time period.
That's IT... it is
that simple.
How difficult can it be to go to work each day and do something for all of the customers who walk into your business each day?
Why is that so easy to understand when you're running
Kroger, but so impossible to figure out when you're running
Delta Downs or the like??