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Originally Posted by Travis Stone
I really never understand the knocking of ABC, NBC or anyones coverage of horse racing.
ESPN is ESPN, not ESPN OTB. ABC is ABC, and not ABC OTB.
They put horse racing on the air to entertain general audiences in addition to racing fans. General audiences could care less about who ran fourth, they want to know who just won the race.
The same argument applies to their camera angles. To a non-racing fan, the pan shot is BORING.
They correctly assume the majority of people who are serious bettors are not on their couch but at a track or an OTB. The majority of people watching horse racing on a day like the Belmont are 3x a year race watchers and they are watching to be entertained, not informed.
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when the 2 networks agree to cover the entire card including what are meaningless optional claiming and non winners of 1 races and don't carry the G1 before the belmont, thats pretty pathetic. They dropped the ball big time, and the kick in the nuts is that they aired from 5-7......................for 1 race, and the majority of the crap-o-la they aired was previously shown on the espn show, utterly pathetic
-bt-