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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

I did a Fantasy Football draft a few years ago. The people who do them are tailor-made for horse racing. They virtually all carry laptops around with them. They're all opinionated and obsessed with stats. They're all sports news junkies who stay up to date on injuries and are aware of coaching changes, coordinator changes, new schemes, etc.

Most of these guys also like to gamble.

The leadership in horse racing is too dumb to see the crossover potential.

Talk about 'Fantasy' anything and it gets laughed at. They think those people are all a joke...playing a "kids game" as you called it.

Not totally Doug.. This announcement was a significant development in just that arena..

DraftKings Partners with Breeders' Cup World Championships
Monday, September 8, 2014

http://www.breederscup.com/article/d...-championships

NEW YORK (September 8, 2014) - The Breeders’ Cup and DraftKings, Inc., one of America’s leading Daily Fantasy Sports websites, today announced an agreement making DraftKings the exclusive Daily Fantasy Sports site of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships and the name-in-title sponsor of the $1 million DraftKings Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.

The Breeders’ Cup World Championships is Thoroughbred racing’s most prestigious international event, consisting of 13 grade I races with purses and awards totaling $26 million. The event takes place October 31- November 1 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., and will be televised live on NBC and NBCSN.

The DraftKings Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, a grade I race for fillies and mares 3-years-old and older, contested at 7/8th of a mile on the main track, will be run on Saturday, November 1. Since its inception in 2007, 6 of the 7 Filly & Mare Sprint winners have been voted Thoroughbred racing’s Eclipse Award Champion Female Sprinter.

As part of the agreement, DraftKings and Breeders’ Cup will develop media and entertainment programs designed to support this historic horse racing event at Santa Anita Park and on a national level. Additionally, DraftKings will offer 12 special contests awarding vacation packages and exclusive VIP access to the Breeders' Cup racing weekend, providing experiences that cannot be purchased. Contestants can enter here: https://www.draftkings.com/BreedersCup.

“The wide ranging popularity that DraftKings has established in daily fantasy sports is an excellent fit for the challenge and excitement of Thoroughbred racing and the Breeders’ Cup,” said Craig Fravel, Breeders’ Cup President and CEO. “We welcome DraftKings to this year’s event as an exclusive partner and title sponsor of the Filly & Mare Sprint.”