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Originally Posted by Kasept
Doug..
Can check with Becky Ryder to see what's up. If you want to reach out to her: becky.ryder@uky.edu |
Check in with her if you can, Steve. Those archives are treasures from a lot of different standpoints.
I would passionately argue the importance of them being available and complete ... but stuff like that is only truly important once you have the kind of fanbase and educated customers that racings want to have, but doesn't.
Stuff like Night School and the good work people like BTW are doing on TV and you are doing with your radio show are more important to developing an educated fan base right now ... and you can't make anyone want to spend hundreds and hundreds of hours reading old racing forms just to learn stuff ... but if the sport wants to create a next level from a fan education standpoint ... that material needs to be put out their and especially so in a very convenient searchable format like the Archives website has.
If someone ever made me a national racing commissioner, there would be a whole lot of things I'd want to do in terms of reducing takeout, and introducing betting exchanges especially ... but I know none of that stuff would ever get done because of the way things are with politicians and industry people.
However, the two things I think I could manage to accomplish, I would see to it that every DRF from 1896 through 2010 is up...and I would see to it that the best horse racing video game of all-time gets made. Basically, two very small victories but they would be victories.