[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by justindew

I don't have all the answers. What do you think? Do you think it's a lost cause? Cuz I don't. Racing has a superstar handed to it on a silver platter- A girl who is crushing the best boys in the country. The door has been opened. Walk through it.
I am a gambler, and in my opinion, horse racing is the best game in gambling. And this is in spite of the 20% takeout and rampant cheating. If it's clear to me, it can become clear to everyone. it just might take a little work.

The door may be opened but guess what? Rachel won't race probably for another five months minimum. Talk about a momentum killer. The NBA schedule is out. I can make plans for what games I might want to travel to see and know with reasonable assurity that the marquee players I'm going to see will be playing. I've already put in to have Christmas off so I can watch Lebron and Shaq vs. Kobe. Can you do that with racing? Jackson won't even tell the public until a week beforehand where Rachel is going to be racing. How can you market that properly? All of the marketing and hyping of the top 3yos that took place in the winter leading to the Derby and where are all of those horses? In basketball, you get to see your team play 3-4 times a week. In football, it's every weekend and you know ahead of time when and where they'll be. In racing, if we get to see them once a month, we are doing well. And good luck figuring out when and where that once a month will be.