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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
NY OTB pays a fee for all signals, just like ADWs and host tracks pay other tracks, but pays a very low rate due to their high handle. They have a state mandated deal with NYRA, as they were created as an arm for racing in NY State, and thus have to support the industry in NY State and the very races they specifically were created to exist upon. Remember, for the first 25 or so years of their existance, there was little to no simulcasting, so they existed only on NY races.....save a literal handful of " special events. "
I really don't feel like getting into a further discussion of how OTB is inefficient and takes way too much money out of racing and why the nature of their charter runs contra to the best interests of racing.
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I don't think he was asking about that, but I could be wrong, I think he just wanted to see where his dollar was best spend.
Personally, there is too many hands in the cookie jar, but it is what we get when all these states are involved with differences up the wazzoo(takeout, drugs, entry rules)
IMO it will never change until horse racing gets run like a sporting franchise, like the NFL/MLB/NBA, which will never happen because of the gambling aspect