Promoting the game (with a shiny new catchphrase)

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by PatCummings

The greater topic might involve finding a way to glorify watching replays, reading PPs, studying trends, managing spreadsheets, sitting at your computer for hours...or hanging out at your local, OTB and plowing it through with the AARPers drinking Sanka, by request. I won't argue that there isn't some glory in smoking out a $10,000 pick four bet that cost you $72, but the steps to get there might make for some challenging television in 30/60 seconds. Should we support it - yes, if it can get done.

It would help if we had bettors to market who had no formal education, and have emerged from button factories to have made hundreds of millions of dollars from betting horses.








As long as the betting public is burdened by draconian takeout rates -- the game has no chance to compete with the NFL, MLB, or even the NBA.

[PatCummings]

The sooner we stop comparing racing to the NFL, NBA, or MLB, the better.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by PatCummings

The sooner we stop comparing racing to the NFL, NBA, or MLB, the better.

And compare it with what, Poker maybe?

You think a Poker ad would be that laughable and pretentious?

The people running this sport and the powers that be in horse racing are clueless beyond belief. A lot of them need to find different outlets where they can better put their educations to use that suit them.

The more we continue to market the sport to people who want to wear an expensive hat and walk around with a mint drink one day out of the whole entire year -- the more the sport is going to continue a steady decline.

If you go to the dice table at 4AM on a Thursday here ... the two are full and you usually have to wait to get in. If you go to the simulcasting on Met Mile day when live racing is dark ... you might have 8 people betting.

[Sightseek]

I bet someone was feeling like a real genius when they matched up the word flown in the song with the flying dismount footage.