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Old 12-29-2008, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by PSH
How do the racetracks take advantage of this situation?
A depressed economy to attract newbies....
Increased marketing, not charging admission and parking.....
$1 beers? Free vouchers?

Oh, full fields and competitive racing would help too for the more hardcore players...
I would be for cutting back some of the days at certain tracks but that isn't going to happen....

PSH
I think you are starting to see this though. Gulfstream has cut back to 5 days for the WHOLE year, Arlington this year raced Thursday - Sunday half the time (when Churchill was running) and added Wednesday's. Slowly but surely is unfortunetly the model of the industry.
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