If Racing is dying.....

[AskinHaskin]

Originally Posted by Parkview_Pirate

Supply and demand? Isn't the foal crop nowadays about half what it was in the 1980s?

Less than 40%...

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by AskinHaskin

This alone is the single greatest factor which has present-day horse racing effectively holed-up in a senior citizen's home sitting on land across the street from a cemetery.


The young techies are too smart to get sucked-into such an unfavorable situation while those who function in the periphery of those young techies exist in a world where everything is done for them.

So why in the heck should any of those modern people be expected to find some book by Tom Brohammer and waste (life) reading in order to play some game which takes place in a senior citizen's home across the road from a cemetery?


Most other gambling exercises don't have this self-created barrier between themselves and most of the society all around them. Racing's reaction to this has been for decades to shore-up the barrier thus further restricting itself and all those who derive a living from racing from knowing much greater handle revenue and the better purses and incomes which would result.

Racing created this problem all on its own, and the fact that many other games of chance which run without the same problem popped-up over the past 30 or 40 years only exposed horse racing's greatest flaw and commenced the mass exodus.

Racetrack management could/should have long-ago taken simple steps to reverse this self-created flaw but their narrow-minded outlook has instead doomed racing's future to the cemetery across the street. It is only a matter of time unless common sense mercifully steps in to begin to reverse the erosion.

But then where are you going to find common sense among today's track management teams?

If the sense is so common, how come you NEVER have ONCE explained what common sense step(s) should be taken to reverse the erosion?

[Afleet]

foal crops:

http://www.jockeyclub.com/default.asp?section=FB&area=2

[AskinHaskin]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

If the sense is so common, how come you NEVER have ONCE explained what common sense step(s) should be taken to reverse the erosion?

Such an exercise would be akin to explaining air or water to people who are too self-centered to recognize and admit that they have long understood air and water.

The BIG picture is all that matters here. Your own individual picture remains insignificant.

[jay68802]

Originally Posted by AskinHaskin

Such an exercise would be akin to explaining air or water to people who are too self-centered to recognize and admit that they have long understood air and water.

The BIG picture is all that matters here. Your own individual picture remains insignificant.

In other words, you got nothing.

When you can make time in your busy schedule to help us poor, ignorant folks understand the greatness of your intelligence, please do.

And to think, I only had to remind myself to breath 6 times while typing this.

[thaskalos]

Originally Posted by jay68802

In other words, you got nothing.

When you can make time in your busy schedule to help us poor, ignorant folks understand the greatness of your intelligence, please do.

And to think, I only had to remind myself to breath 6 times while typing this.

Why should he help the "self-centered leeches" who have ruined the game?

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by AskinHaskin

Such an exercise would be akin to explaining air or water to people who are too self-centered to recognize and admit that they have long understood air and water.

The BIG picture is all that matters here. Your own individual picture remains insignificant.

Are you a con or a troll? Or both?