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Originally Posted by MaTH716
This is a problem, changing the perception.
Sure, there are some tracks that are dreay places. But on the other end of the spectrum, there are very nice tracks that have good facilities. Places where people and their families/friends can spend a nice day.
As far as getting the gamblers, I really believe that the tracks need to (and have started) targeting the college kids. Plant those seeds, so when these kids graduate and get jobs, they remember their expierences at the track and go back with some cash to put into the pools.
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Yes there are nice tracks and even those places are dreary on a thursday afternoon in early july or late december. I went to the NCAA football championship in 2010. I went to Santa Anita before the game. There were like 17 people there. That place is gorgeous but it was pretty darn dreary. What a wasted opportunity. Two miles down the road is one the biggest games of the year if not the decade and they can't find away to piggy back.
Racing is way out of fashion. It doesn't have to be that way. We have great meets and major events still to build on. It won't always be that way though.
05-26-2011, 02:43 PM
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