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07-09-2010, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by only11
Reading these threads have made me wonder what would i be doing if there wasnt any racing?
1_talk to my wife more..
2_collect stamps
3_bet sports
I couldnt imagine..what would you be doing?
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Do what I could to help rebuild it.
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07-09-2010, 08:50 PM
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Join Date: May 2009
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overseas
learn how to handicap overseas but i doubt it will perish in next 20 years 
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07-09-2010, 09:36 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz
The game is not going to die, but some of its tracks certainly will.
My belief is that the game will contract and then be re-born as a single business entity. It could be Magna or CDi that pulls this off, but not without a lot of directional change.
Some will be smart enough to re-invent themselves. We (HorseStreet) have to do the same thing. The HorseStreet operation six months from now will probably be quite different from what we are now.
Adapt or die. It is that simple.
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I agree that that game is not going to die, but it is possible that it could be dramatically different in the future as there will almost assuredly be material changes.
If the game were to die (or become completely unpalatable) I guess I would go back to playing polo or maybe finally learn to play hockey.
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07-09-2010, 09:48 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 368
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I'll play that horse race game at the state fair, where you keep pushing the button to make your horse go around the fastest. Then I'll win a big stuffed animal instead of $3.20 on a 3/5 drug addled nag.
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07-09-2010, 10:13 PM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
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I guess I would have to find another damn girlfriend.......... 
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07-09-2010, 10:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: new york
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I would definately go back into the Mexican Navy.
Had I stayed in and gone thru their 2 weeks of intense officer training, I woulda been a General by now. At least a Colonel anyway.
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-George Augustus Sala (1828-95) English writer and journalist
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07-09-2010, 10:44 PM
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Pat Day's caddy
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Illinois
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I'd become a Biblical Scholar. It's easier to comprehend the Bible than the form cycle of horses.
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07-09-2010, 11:16 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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One more vote for play more golf.
More poker & pool as well.
Judging by the above, the game is about dead for me anyway. 
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
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07-09-2010, 11:24 PM
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Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,072
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Try to decipher Winter Triangle's posts.
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07-09-2010, 11:26 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 3,630
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do sports talk radio
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07-09-2010, 11:30 PM
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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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I would play online poker. Most of us would move to some other form of gambling because we are gamblers. The real question is what if they shut down online gambling period? I guess I could take up bridge again.
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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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07-09-2010, 11:55 PM
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Librocubicularist
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Ohio
Posts: 10,466
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Chess.
The only other game that comes close to being as challenging.
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07-10-2010, 12:10 AM
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Pace Cappa
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Canada
Posts: 4,649
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Play more golf, sounds good to me.
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07-10-2010, 12:20 AM
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Just another Facist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Now in Houston
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Originally Posted by Robert Goren
I would play online poker. Most of us would move to some other form of gambling because we are gamblers. The real question is what if they shut down online gambling period? I guess I could take up bridge again. |
I play a little poker, but I wouldn't play any other gambling. And Online poker, no way!
I play the horses because it is different. I love the challenge. I don't play and have never played Blackjack or Craps or anything else in spite of spending plenty of time in Vegas over the years. I spent it in the race book.
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07-10-2010, 12:26 AM
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Smarty Pants
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Every Vote Counts
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Unfortunately the Game has already died.
Sorry to tell you all that.
What's left if not a game, it's very serious.
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