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Originally Posted by Kasept
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.
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steve did nyra always have this 12 day off vacation? i think if you look back they didn't take this long a peroid off
steve from a business perspective if you were selling your barbecue sandwiches in a location where there was demand almost any day you were open and your fixed costs stayed the same whether you were open or not , expalin to me why you would close the business down for 12 straight days?
everyone is entitled to vacation time , everyone is entitled to days off , sometimes 1 or 2 days a week , but the entire operation does not need to be shut down
i don't get it , are we to believe that over these 12 days nyra couldn't find owners and trainers who don't want to run?
am i to believe that if slots were in place at AQU that the state would not want nyra to run?