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Originally Posted by Kasept
Yeah. I imagine 70yo Tagg to be quite a rube. I'm well aware what edges guys are taking. I just find it grossly unfair that some are accused with such ferocious zeal and glee while others seem to escape such attacks for whatever reason.
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Glee? I think "glee" might be the appropriate way to describe it for a minority, but the correct characterization is "anger." This is not as funny as some seem to think. Sometimes I hear all the complaining about the state of the industry, and need(atleast temporarily) for slot money to sweeten purses. I'll tell you exactly why this industry is struggling. It's because people ignore the complaints of the customers that don't want to cap trainers. We want to cap horses. When the industry stops denying this problem, you'll see the value of the product come back. Look, you've got a trainer claiming a horse(off a trainer that won four Breeders Cup Races on one day in 2003) for $62,500. The new trainer easily wins a $100k stakes race right off the claim. By the way, this 60k goes right into his pocket, because the new trainer owns the horse. The old trainer never won a stakes with the horse. He's won a ton of stakes, but couldn't win one with this horse. This is the problem with your industry. Right here. You want people to bet, and get new friends to bet etc. Guess what? Ain't gunna happen. There aren't that many people willing to put up with this crap. Slot money isn't the answer. The answer is to give people something a lot more clean to bet on. As long as people refuse to do that, this industry will struggle(as it should.) Yea, you're surprised you have to sell the product, but you have to. That's because people don't particularly have a fondness for a product they see as unfair. You can tell people it's fair, but that's just not what they see in front of them. Pretty much this is it. This is pretty much the limit to the amount of people willing to tolerate this garbage going on.