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05-05-2009, 03:00 PM
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Maybe the increased ratings are "leading" the action. If people enjoy watching triple crown coverage and the ratings go up, at least some will go through the effort to get a bet in. The viewership can feed the betting and vice versa, as in the "World Series of Poker" 
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05-05-2009, 03:28 PM
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Most kids don't even know who Seattle Slew is....but they will remember a horse that's in their own lifetime, if they watched Mine That Bird
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05-05-2009, 09:44 PM
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There is only one logical reason why the ratings were up so much...
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05-05-2009, 09:58 PM
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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05-05-2009, 10:07 PM
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Obama!!!
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05-05-2009, 10:44 PM
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Hate to say it, but I think increased ratings were because of what happened to Eight Belles and Barbaro. Something emotional and terrible happens that's talked about around the water cooler, people want to see it first hand.
Luckily, instead this year they saw a feel-good "anyman" story, Borel crying for missing his momma and daddy, a pair of cowboys doing good, etc.
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05-05-2009, 11:00 PM
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Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!"
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