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Old 04-30-2020, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by jnunan4759 View Post
I think Fonner agreed to those terms because it was take it or leave it. Not sure, before now, they got any ADW action. Nebraska doesn't allow ADW betting, and many in the US never knew Fonner existed before this lockdown.

I think they got a slightly better ADW deal for the meet extension.

Not sure what is going on in these meat plants. Seems like an inordinate amount of cases.
Fonner has been available on ADW platforms for years, it was just overshadowed by all the other tracks that were running like Santa Anita, Oaklawn, Keeneland Aqueduct etc. On Saturday, their big day of the week pre-Covid19, the average all-sources win pool was about $10k per race. On Friday and Sunday it was only about $6-7k. Now its between 70-100k. So the ADW handle was so small it was basically insignificant so it didn't really matter what percentage they got, it was all gravy. Now that its basically all they have and the handle is so much higher I hope they got a better deal.
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