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Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up
I may be naive but I dont see people deciding "do I play the ponies or do I play the slots today".......I feel like people seek out poker to play, they seek out horses, or they seek out whatever venture that they enjoy and can survive.
You just have little chance of surviving long term in horse racing. When that changes, if ever, I feel like the sport could grow.
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You are thinking too specifically. Gambling is gambling and the proliferation of the availability of casino gambling more or less is choking off many of the potential players of the past.
Funny thing is that your thinking is similar to the reasoning that started racing down the path it has taken. NYRA thought that no one would go to OTB's and not to the tracks in the early 70's. No one thought that the lotteries would hurt handle. Tracks and horsemen didnt think that people would stop betting live races to bet simulcasts in the 90's.
In the end we cant go back and fix those mistakes because in each case the cat is out of the bag and cant be put back in. So yeah we should be using the slot money in a more efficient manner, we should have used more money to try to grow handle and we should have spent more on marketing and lobbyists. But as you have implied as long as the states are needing new revenue sources the slot money will always be in danger.