Finley @ ESPN: Good times are over

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Originally Posted by tector

If Drugs and IC remember, they can tell you that I advocated less racing LONG ago. More racing is not better racing. Most of the ills of racing can be traced to "more racing". When racing was one of the big three sports in the US (with baseball and boxing), there wasn't even any winter racing up north. You are never going to return to those days, of course, but the idea that "more" is somehow automatically indicative of a "better" game is obviously disproved by history.

When an area is logged out, you just don't need as many loggers around. We don't need as many horse people, period. No one is guaranteed a lifetime profession in a capitalist society. The goal should be to preserve what is best, and lose the rest.

Well you my have advocated this but I hate to inform you but it hasn't exactly worked out well. You see there is this little detail that racing HAS contracted quite a bit over the last 20 years and the results have not exactly been promising. In 1989 there were 74071 races run in the US. In 2009 there were 49368. That would be...alot less racing yet everyone keeps saying we need less, we need less. You know what happens when you race less? Yeah thats right, nothing. The problem isnt too many horse people...