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Originally Posted by Some_One
The racing industry in North America is basically a welfare/subsidy program for owners (and to a lesser extent trainers). Every decision over the last 30 years was a short sighted decision to benefit owners.
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While owners have benefited from those decisions, it is more a function of racing having given the
customers what they've wanted over the past 35 years which has racing circling the toilet in 2019.
In 1984 we sat around trading punches in the WPS pools all day, with everyone knowing a much greater chance of going home with
most of their bankroll, with enough to play another day. Furthermore, we played almost every race with the revenue churning each time the bell sounded.
It wasn't some brainiac suddenly inventing the pick-3 as if it were an artificial heart (and a godsend for the whole of society), it was a function of giving the public what it wanted which began the life-sucking exercise of putting money on the shelf and leaving it there for X races at a time. That while at the same time making it exponentially more difficult to win the bets you make and having anything left for tomorrow.
That trend began in earnest with the late 1980's and it was soon exacerbated by turning on the signals to multiple simulcast tracks with more and more OTB's scattered around, all of which served to harm the big picture in the interest of seeming to make it somehow
better for the individual at the time.
Horse racing lost a generation of young, new fans in ways which parallel China having lost a generation of daughters, but at least China has shown the common sense to begin to repair what it has done to itself while horse racing and nearly all of you are too clueless to recognize what you've been doing to yourselves for decades.
Common sense is a prerequisite for turning around this complete mess you have thrust upon yourselves and it appears that none of you here can even understand
what you have done to yourselves, and to racing by your own repetitive blunders, so clearly
common sense is way beyond your pay grades.
Nobody need give a #$&* about racing surfaces,
late money, takeout, or drugs in racing, as those are mere Band-aid wounds relative to all of that woes that you yourselves have brought upon racing over the past 35 years.
Common sense would recognize the impossible equation which
you have created for the would-be (lol - lets use highnote's absurd suggestion: )
"young" new track visitor when he/she steps into the mutuel pools
and then common sense would make the ONLY priority to bring some hope, and some balance to that person's grim outlook which was effected entirely by you.
Instead of employing
common sense in reversing the lethal effects of your clueless paths, you instead ask the insane questions which parallel:
"Well what more can racing do for me ???? "
(and you decide that your position is
correct just by virtue of so many other industry
stakeholders asking the same wrong-sighted question)
Horse racing as it has devolved in North America is still
the ONLY gamble out there which can actually DO something direct for its customers every minute of the racing day... and yet the whole industry combined does the sum total of ZERO for its customers merely because
it's always been that way.
Common sense simply doesn't mesh with the racing industry's screwed-up way of thinking.
When horse racing resolves to
Doooooooooooo something in uniform fashion for ALL of those who wander through its gates each day, only then will it begin to reverse the strong currents which see it only circling the toilet in 2019.
Doing one more idiotic thing to appease Barry Irwin and then letting yourselves feel that you've been
fair to all just isn't going to suffice anywhere outside of the drain.
