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02-09-2011, 11:16 PM
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Look at the last two guys put in charge of NYRA... I belive Barry Schwartz and Hayword.
Just about everything Schwartz said made me think he was a genius - and Hayword came on MSNBC last year and made a shocking amount of sense. Try as they may have - they couldn't make anything meaningfull happen in that regard. The powers that be in California are hopelessly retarded. They couldn't have possibly believed even a morsel of what they were selling. They are playing games with rates at Gulfstream. In order for HANA to have cred - they needed DRF and TVG to help them out A LOT. DRF has done nothing for HANA - I don't think I've ever even seen HANA so much as mentioned in a DRF column or blog post. TVG has done very little - they've put Maloney and the Platt guy on TV once or twice .. but that's about it. HANA's going to have no luck sparking an Egyptian style revolution for the oppressed horseplayer. It's a totally hopeless outlook all-around. This sport has no progress at all in its future... what happened at Santa Anita this meet illustrates that crystal clear. 
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02-09-2011, 11:40 PM
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In order for them to be taken seriously, they need to find leadership that CAN be taken seriously. You put someone like Steve in there and things change really quick I bet.
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02-10-2011, 12:10 AM
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It doesn't matter who they have - and how artful and persuasive they can be - at the very least - they'll need a ton of help from DRF and TVG. In a head scratching kind of way, Bloodhorse seems to be the entity that has been most willing to help them.
HANA has not been singularly focused enough on the takeout issue. For the future betterment of the sport, it's simply the only issue that even matters at all in my opinion.
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02-10-2011, 09:48 AM
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My mother will stop up to see for me for two minutes and play them for three hours straight. I would rather read a long PG 1985 response to a pedigree ann post than play a slot machine.
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02-10-2011, 10:04 AM
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I agree 100% -- they seem to have a lot of addicts playing them. It hits me in the gut to see a brainless game beating our game. It's an anti-merit situation.
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02-10-2011, 10:10 AM
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02-10-2011, 11:28 AM
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Betting on the sport would be absolutely huge beyond belief. The lead to Sports Center many nights would be a horse racing story - now, it's a rareity if an elite race gets covered on ESPN .. and if the College Vollyball game goes to overtime you could miss half of the coverage. Horse racing is only an essential to life for a few truly crazy crazies like myself. All of the suckers, hunch players, name betters have been seduced away by lotto's and slots. And as the pair-mutual competiton has become tougher the takeout has risen well beyond oppressive levels. What happens to countries when they oppress her people? What happened in Rome when the bread and circuses ran out? What happened in France when they were told to eat cake by a clueless aristocrat? What happened in Athens when a handful of oligarchs marched them off a cliff in the Peloponesian War? What's happening in Egypt right now? Because horse racing is not an essential - and never will be - instead of a revolt you just see the sport has slowly slid more and more to irrelevance with the general public for all but one or two days a year. The remarkable thing is that no one gains from raising takeout. Progress is stunted and everyone loses from it. It honestly makes no sense at all to me. The part I never understood was why it went up in the first place. That's why I found the following quote from the 1950's so interesting ... 
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02-10-2011, 10:20 AM
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02-10-2011, 11:07 AM
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As for slots. It's mindless. It's fast. That's perfect for most people.
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