Well, this isn't good...

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

They must be making a living somehow. They seemed to be sucking up those $1000 last place checks. They get stalls for nothing, pay nobody, and collect low checks. I'd have to do the math, but I don't think they are starving.

If they're not...maybe their horses are. I'm sure they're gyping on food and medications.

I'm sure I'm going to be asked to write something about this by an editor when the meet opens here in about 10 days.

They ran 800 races with 6,600 starters at PID last year -- and only had two horses breakdown the entire meet.

It will basically pivot into a piece about how Slots have been welfare for horsemen and racetracks and how none of it anywhere has ever gone to improve the sport and lower takeout rates and rarely does anything ever even go to seriously improve the racing product.

I don't agree on points like the jail rule and the claiming price levels. For the small-fry horse owner...the jail rule is a bitch and the higher claiming levels are raised the worse off you are. I don't think bettors or the racing product benefit much from the jail rule or higher claiming levels either. It just makes it much harder on someone who wants to take a gamble and claim a $5,000 horse in good ole tax free PA. The jail rule is still in play here anyway.