Improving the product

Originally Posted by Danzig

i guess i just don't see it as a big deal. on the one hand, it's a small amount, so you might wonder why they bother at all. on the other, it's such a small amount, you wonder how it could keep someone from attending.
as for people on my side, i don't feel i have anyone there as my state only allows me to wager at the track itself. no online, no tvg, nothing. so i'm really hamstrung about how i can spend my money.
this thread is about improving the product. i think the $2 entry fee is a tremendously small part of a far larger problem, a declining fan base.

who knows, maybe if the tracks got rid of the fee, and trumpeted 'free admission', you might get a few more in there. for me personally, i don't have a problem with paying $2 to enter the track.

maybe they could put that fee towards more advertising. or towards horse rescue/retirement.

My particular statement was for the benefit of the gambler
who actually plans, or needs to make money at a track.
I would think that would be the miniscule few.

So your statement
is not odd at all. Are the tracks actually supposed to provide a
venue for some people willing to look very closely and study horse
racing and betting... a venue for them to live off of... Live off the
people that bet purely for entertainment.

I dont think so. But the tracks themselves need to attract
people to the track if revenue is lost in large amounts due
to the internets vast illegal use of the track's product.

Vegas seems to have done just fine with their house games
which are automatic losing propositions for everyone that
plays enough.