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Old 01-02-2008, 10:31 PM
Danzig Danzig is offline
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Originally Posted by Honu
You dont , Im a salary employee , if we dont win a race for 6 months I still make the same amount , you dont pay me.
no, we pay the track thru take out, who puts up the purse money, which goes to the winners, who pay the trainers, who pays you....how long would that salary last if the betting stopped?


i still think the first race was run by two people who thought their horse was faster, and the guy who said 'go' had a side bet with two farmers who stopped plowing long enough to watch.
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