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Originally Posted by gales0678
so you are telling me that the state is shutting down an entity that loses $$$ for 12 days of the year when they are already closed 2 days a weeks save saratoga when they are closed 1 day
isn't the objective to make $$$$ , why 12 days off didn't they used to run up until dec 24th
ny state is broke steve and needs every available dollar during this recession , the gov and the legislature could change that tomorrow and we could have racing by friday
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Gosh.. maybe they should just run 7 days a week? How about that? Do you have any idea how racing works? Racetracks aren't restaurants that open and close based on the owners' decision of when they want to be open or closed... THEY'RE ENCUMBERED BY STATE STATUTES AND MANDATES.
There is annualized planning and projections involved... Tracks work with state governing bodies and horsemen's groups and in some cases like California, owner's groups. Dates are negotiated betwen these entities and then the state is approached. There are negotiations between states and the racing entities. There are negotiations between the racing entities and the horsemen. There are purse funding negotiations and distributions that are evaluated to determine what kind of average daily purses meets will offer. There are evaluations by racing offices as to how many horses are at the disposal of the track typically based on stall applications and how many of those can be anticipated to run based on the anticipated condition book. Planning goes into the request for and setting of dates.
You act like the schedule is something that is arbitrarily determined. There's such a thing as blood from a stone too. If you over-race and try to take every possible date without foresight, you end up with 5 and 6 horse fields and 4 day weeks and 7 race cards and messes like you're getting in California. Whoever thinks that jurisdictions should be racing 5-6 days a week, 52 weeks a year has no idea how the game works or the dynamics and economics of the industry as it stands right now.