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Originally Posted by Afleet
where is that blowhard askinhaskin selling the virtues of increased take?
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What drugs are you on?
I've never said a word about
increasing takeout as a means to solving anything.
The point has always been that
lowering takeout (instead of addressing the real concerns which lie beneath)
is a fool's folly which serves only to exacerbate the problems.
My only references to raising takeout have been to underscore how obvious the idiocy that is
lowering takeout really is, in the way of a
solution to anything. (such as comparing Hialeah pick-4 pools with the small 12% takeout to the same pools with the much higher takeout a year later) (or comparing Canterbury's handle during the experimental year to Canterbury's handle a year later, with
giant takeout increases) (those examples are emphatic, and significant at least until the failed notion that is
lowering takeout ever increases the bottom line
anywhere)
All you have to do is read Pratt
above to further underscore how clueless the whole
lower takeout campaign really is.
He should have learned via Canterbury's 2016 disaster that merely
increasing "money BET by horseplayers on the product" guarantees nothing for the bottom line, or for purses at all.
Once and for all, you have to address the
lack of parity in the wagering pools as
the single greatest factor in racing's present demise (now ongoing for decades).
Forget takeout
forget drugs in racing
forget steward's rulings
forget some guys (but not you) being granted direct, computer-line access to the mutuels
forget horse safety* (*as an answer that relates to solving any public perception problem, and thus increasing business as a result)
forget synthetic tracks
forget last minute odds changes making a horse go from 4-1 at the post to 4-to-5 on the backstretch
forget $9000 show bets on some 74-to-1 debut runner trained by a person who is 0-for-50 lifetime with debut runners
forget race-fixing
forget competition from the lottery
All of that other s*** has just been there conveniently to camouflage what racing has been
doing to itself over the past 30 years.
Use the NFL as contrast...
The mighty Dolphins, now 6 and 8, go up 27-10 over the Patriots in a game that wasn't even as
close as the 27-20 final score... and the same Patriots return 6 days later and reign superior over the now-11-and-3 Steelers who had won 8 in a row.
That's why people watch the NFL!
Horse racing's
standings (in the parimutuel pools) would be akin to the NHL in the 1950's where the same two teams dominated every year. (so consider the difference between total NHL attendance then and now and mark down another sport now with 8 times the attendance it had back in
the good old days )
The average guy working in an office downtown
has zero interest in visiting the local track or OTB because he already feels he knows what is going to happen if he does visit.
And, collectively,
all of you are still the problem.
Now if you can't understand that much, then you have zero hope of ever righting this sinking ship.