Another "promotion" is the Friday night drunk fest:cheap booze and crappy loud music. Many's the time it was so loud we had to get security out to force them to shut it down as we could not hear the paddock speakers and many a young horse, inexperienced to crowd noise anyway, almost flipped in the paddock. MOST of the stable regulars, upset that their repeated complaints regarding obnoxious cacophony went unheeded, made sure that Friday's were no longer part of their racing experience. THIS IS THE GROUP THAT HAS THE MONEY,as steadily the handle went down all Summer, YET the clowns at the helm called the experiment "positive." The 29 year old general manger who is often heard yelling OUT LOUD, things like "we need to get rid of all these old people," hailed it as a positive step. This man is clueless and the whore of the casino company that owns the track.
The marketing manager (who had ZERO experience in horse racing) and I had a conversation about this in the winner's circle. I asked; "Once you get them out here, what is your plan to make them fans?" Her response? "That's not my problem." With geniuses like that at the helm can the demise of the game be far at hand? CLUELESS CLUELESS OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY.
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01-17-2012, 08:08 AM
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