View Single Post
  #7  
Old 12-10-2009, 07:42 AM
Kasept's Avatar
Kasept Kasept is online now
Steve Byk
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Greenwich, NY
Posts: 43,790
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by randallscott35
Simply put, it would lower the takeout which would attract more gambling money....Horse racing needs to compete with sports gambling.
The lowering of takeout is a bit of a canard though Rand... It absolutely can stand to come down of course to a level that's 'right' and stimulates handle to the point that offsets the decrease. There's numbers that make sense for everyone and are simply necessary to pay for the overheads of everything involved in putting on the show.

But more than takeout, the nature of the internal model demands adjustment. As has been discussed widelt in the "model is upside down" discussions, the bet-takers are getting too much... The source of the product deserves an increase in the share.
__________________
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine
Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans
Reply With Quote