Discovery Channel, are you listening?

[notyep59]

Originally Posted by TheSpyder

It's been discussed on this board before, but, growing up we would get a ticket with numbers for five horse races at the grocery store when you bought a certain amount of food and then on Thursday evening there was a 30 minute horse racing show and if your horse won you would get discounts or prizes.

It was great and I believe sucked me into the sport. I think I was 8 years old

If this was done and refined it would bring horse racing into the mainstream and people love to win things so I think you'd get an audience.

The colonial store here in va. used to give out those cards with every purchase, then show races from like a month earlier. your horse would always be leading at the top of the stretch, just to get caught at the wire. I think watching that show is when i last got my mouth washed out with soap. my parents didn't know they taught me that word!

The crab stuff is great.

The Ice Road truckers is as bad as the horse would
show would be. Unless of course we had the drugging
of horses, and Illegals running... green cards... what Pillow said.

It is the human drama and conflicts that occur when one's face
is on fire that create interest.

[2MinsToPost]

The show Intervention dedicated half of one of their shows about two years ago on a local woman who had/has a gambling problem. The camera crew followed her from the bingo halls to you guessed it - Beulah Park. Nothing like seeing my fellow homies on a cold dark day bettin the horses.

I would love to see a special like that as most of us would, but we would most definetaly appreciate it more then the guy or gal who knows nothing about it. Maybe it would draw some people in if they showed the good sides of the sport. Just don't let them show the "dark side" like where I hang out You wanna turn people off the sport let the cameras roll at Beulah around 4pm on a Tuesday in January. Some of the creatures that hang around the track

[TheSpyder]

Out in LA a couple months ago I was checking into the Crown Plaza by the airport. The guy next to me asks for the Holywood Park rate and I'm thinking he's got to be an owner. As we get on the elevator I ask him and he tells me he's with Gamblers Annomous and comes out here to help people that have lost everything. He tells me some of these people lose everything they have. Damn, I wish it was an owner!

Spyder

Originally Posted by 2MinsToPost

The show Intervention dedicated half of one of their shows about two years ago on a local woman who had/has a gambling problem. The camera crew followed her from the bingo halls to you guessed it - Beulah Park. Nothing like seeing my fellow homies on a cold dark day bettin the horses.

I would love to see a special like that as most of us would, but we would most definetaly appreciate it more then the guy or gal who knows nothing about it. Maybe it would draw some people in if they showed the good sides of the sport. Just don't let them show the "dark side" like where I hang out You wanna turn people off the sport let the cameras roll at Beulah around 4pm on a Tuesday in January. Some of the creatures that hang around the track