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Originally Posted by pba1817
To increase interest in any sport you need the following-
1) Recognizable Stars, racing has none because the value at stud far outweighs the risks of racing long term.
2) A clean atmosphere, 90% of the racetracks in the USA are dumps. These places are not worthy of people with kids. If people are not in tune with taking their kids to the races, you lose the younger generations, which is your future.
3) No cheating, every person I know who is not experienced(and just about all those I do know who are experienced) with horse racing automatically thinks that the entire industry is rigged.
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1. Secretariat (maybe the most famous horse of all time) retired to stud after his three year old year.
2. Some of the biggest dumps I have ever been in include the Boston Garden, Wrigley Field, Veterans stadium, and Shea stadium. Anyone have a problem bringing kids there?
3. MLB, NFL and NBA havent exactly struggled since the steroids era and crooked refs have been exposed. How exactly would you or anybody else "know" if people in the game are cheating or not? How do you determine when things are cleaned up? (I have asked some of the crusaders in the industry this same question and rarely get a reasonable response that doesnt include a lot of mumbling)