What would you change?

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by oracle80

How much do YOU have invested into this industry?

hmm. Nothing as an owner or breeder. Countless hours as a fan and large amounts of both time and money as a bettor. It would be interesting to add up how much I've "invested" as a bettor.

Originally Posted by oracle80

Start telling owners that spent 10 million that they can't get back that money spent and you can count on lots of em just leaving. The only way they can it back under the current structure is in the shed. If you raised purses in stakes races all year long you would atleast give them SOME incentive to race on.

I'm not sure deferring breeding for a year would have such a huge impact on owners that they would leave in droves. And I'm all for raising purses, but as you suggest yourself, it's not much incentive.

Originally Posted by oracle80

Why would someone choose to try and race on with a horse and try and win a million pre expense bucks next year, when they can stand him for 40 or 50 grand a whack and get back some of the money they have spent in this business?

Absolutely no reason, unless they are not allowed to by regulation.

--Dunbar

Originally Posted by Dunbar

hmm. Nothing as an owner or breeder. Countless hours as a fan and large amounts of both time and money as a bettor. It would be interesting to add up how much I've "invested" as a bettor.



I'm not sure deferring breeding for a year would have such a huge impact on owners that they would leave in droves. And I'm all for raising purses, but as you suggest yourself, it's not much incentive.



Absolutely no reason, unless they are not allowed to by regulation.

--Dunbar

Look, Im not agaisnt what you are saying in theory, but theory is not reality.
I just don't see it.

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Look, Im not agaisnt what you are saying in theory, but theory is not reality.
I just don't see it.

Good, I agree with you there. IMO, the chance of this happening is close to nil. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be suggested at every opportunity. Stranger things have happened.

--Dunbar

[King Glorious]

I'd love to create a series of 12f dirt races at about $500k each and make them only available to horses 5yo and up and also create a BC race for them.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I'd love to create a series of 12f dirt races at about $500k each and make them only available to horses 5yo and up and also create a BC race for them.

You can watch them with the Red Queen over tea.

[Sightseek]

The one thing I don't get is people's infactuation with playing slots. I'm appreciative of them of course, because they benefit horseracing...but why not bet racing instead? Mindlessly pulling a lever just doesn't seem very exciting.

I'd get rid of the Breeder's Cup and i'd detonate Laurel Park.