NBC beats Fox for Derby rights

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Originally Posted by richard

How about a light hearted roving reporter like Andy grabbing about 3 attendees prior to a race and they can show us their ticket and do a brief "man on the street" interview ? The reporter can ask the folks for one race , "NBC is looking for the winner of this race, who's got the ticket ?" Have fun with 3 people and the winner receives a $75 voucher from NBC . Next race from a different part of the track..."NBC offers $100 voucher for the exacta ?" ...Then "Who's got some show bets ? $50 if your ticket cashes." ...etc....seems like fun to me.

Didn't they give a give 10,000 grand to bet with last year? That wasn't enough?

I think that many people will turn off a guy like Andy Beyer just because they don't know who he is. Are they really going to care that Morty from Cleveland likes the 2 in the upcoming race? I'm thinking no.

Now if you said that they would have someone discussing/demonstrating different types of wagers (i.e. pick 3's-pick 4's) and how much money they could win, maybe that would intrest a few people that they might want to eventually jump into the water.