Discovery Channel, are you listening?

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Originally Posted by TheSpyder

It's been discussed on this board before, but, growing up we would get a ticket with numbers for five horse races at the grocery store when you bought a certain amount of food and then on Thursday evening there was a 30 minute horse racing show and if your horse won you would get discounts or prizes.

It was great and I believe sucked me into the sport. I think I was 8 years old

If this was done and refined it would bring horse racing into the mainstream and people love to win things so I think you'd get an audience.

The colonial store here in va. used to give out those cards with every purchase, then show races from like a month earlier. your horse would always be leading at the top of the stretch, just to get caught at the wire. I think watching that show is when i last got my mouth washed out with soap. my parents didn't know they taught me that word!