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12-19-2007, 06:51 AM
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MORAN: Free to swing away..
If you haven't been reading the free-swinging Paul Moran on his blog, you're missing a near-daily treat. Moran, unencumbered by the restrictions of Newsday, has been blasting away on his Blogspot at the stupidity, vapidity and arrogance of those working hard at derailing NY racing. His take on laughable Carole Stone and the Pataki-created "Non-profit Racing Association Oversight Board" is another direct hit.
LINK TO PAUL (Also in the DT Links): http://paulmoranattheraces.blogspot.com/ Tuesday, December 18, 2007 The hits just keep coming By Paul Moran Developments unforeseen indeed. My misjudgment. I thought there might be a Christmas moratorium on overt displays of abject stupidity from people better served by silence. Wrong. Another apology for forgetting about the Non-profit Racing Association Oversight Board, which I thought was as dead at George Pataki’s political career. Its chairperson, Carole Stone, sounded a good deal more informed before she opened her mouth on Monday and suggested that the board would strike a third-party deal unless the New York Racing Association agrees to continue operation beyond Dec. 31 with no franchise agreement and no guarantees. Where does Ms. Stone think that, even were such action technically legal, a third party would hire a sufficient number of people to operate Aqueduct while maintaining the facilities at Belmont Park and Saratoga? Who would turn on the lights? Man the betting machines? Manicure the racing surface? Man the starting gate? Park the cars? Make the popcorn? Publish the program? And by the way … all the vendor contracts, which include closed circuit television, photo finish and timing, janitorial service, manure removal and other ingredients essential to the conduct of racing expire with the franchise. No third party has contracts in place to cover simulcasting and dissemination of the television signal to the state’s off-track betting outlets. Apparently, Ms. Stone and her fellow board members believe that racing just happens by itself. One would think that the uninformed benefactors of the politcal system would carefully guard rather than so willingly expose their lack of expertise. Racing is a complex endeavor. Ignorance happens by itself.
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12-19-2007, 07:42 AM
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The best thing to ever happen to racing is to have the journalistic integrity, common sense, and intellect of Paul Moran unlocked from the ball and chain of his editors at Newsday. It has now been three months of brutal, unedited honesty. What a breath of fresh air.
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12-19-2007, 07:48 AM
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More NY racing news which would come as no shocker to residents of the state:
http://www.rochesterdandc.com/apps/p...0359/1002/NEWS "(December 19, 2007) — ALBANY — While state leaders grapple over a new contract to run three of the state's thoroughbred racetracks, New York's other tracks face their own problem: Some say they need a bigger slice of the profits to survive. The plea, mainly from smaller, upstate harness tracks, comes as the fate of the state's thoroughbred-racing franchise hangs in the balance and as the state wrestles with lower-than-expected revenue from tracks with video lottery terminals." Let's take a look at each of these venues demographically to determine why the win per machine has been below expectations. Population within an hour's drive of each facility (all figures approximate), gaming competition, and net win per machine: Saratoga Raceway: ~1 million, NONE, $234 Finger Lakes Racetrack: ~2 million, (Batavia Downs), $224 Yonkers Raceway: ~15 million, NONE, $209 Batavia Downs: ~2.5 million, (Finger Lakes, Buffalo Raceway), $143 Buffalo Raceway: ~1.5 million, (Batavia Downs, Seneca casinos, Ontario casinos, Fort Erie), $131 Vernon Downs: ~700,000, (Tioga Downs, Turning Stone), ~$125 Tioga Downs: ~300,000, (Vernon Downs, Turning Stone, Monticello), ~$125 Monticello Raceway: ~200,000, (Tioga Downs), $121 It doesn't take a genius to see why some parlors are doing better than others.
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12-19-2007, 07:55 AM
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Totally agree obviously... Don't know if you heard Moran on "At the Races" about the time of his Newsday departure, but he was uncertain about what was ahead for him. I told him that I thought he would come away from the new media experience refreshed and enervated and he admitted recently when back on the show that he's more motivated and more excited about his work and voice then he has been in years. He came off for a long time as curmudgeonly and difficult, but I think it was out of frustration at his situation. He's not everyone's cup o' tea, but I like him and his work very much. Gary West is another guy that is so tied up by space limitations and travel restrictions that it's affected his enthusiasm. Even some guys WITHIN racing media outlets are getting frustrated and are looking for exits and new podiums. The Net is the best thing that's ever happened for racing's future.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans
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12-19-2007, 08:51 AM
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