For the morons (most of them) who write about horseracing...

[Riot]

Originally Posted by pgardn

And really, how much need is there for good writers to cover horse racing? The real fan base is so small... The more people get into a sport, the more likely we are going to find writers who cant get away with not knowing the sport.

I was thinking on this, however, and thought that if one put a novice racing or gambling fan onto ATRAB ... they will end up a fan for life. The names in the sport will have faces, personalities. When I was younger, that is why I drifted away for a few years, all the info I could find was fairly coldly statistical about races, horses, trainers.

Put a face, a story, a personality on the athletes, the trainers. Good writers nowadays feed you the "being there" emotions as the writers and newsreels of old did. It sweeps you up and captures your imagination.