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The only people that show up at Belmont or Aqueduct during the week are workers and old people. The weekends can be ok, but why go there when you can watch on television and flip around the football games between races. NYRA could care less about attendance. It is all about handle. |
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yeah go enjoy your x-box.
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"In sports there are just two Opening Days, the Opening Day of Baseball and Opeining Day of Saratoga, all the rest are just season openers" |
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Your x-box comments are funny. I am going to just guess I have been around more good horses in the last week than you have been around in your life. If you want to appreciate horses you go in the mornings or you go to the farm. The paddock and racing give zero indication of the beauty of the animal. Watching races live is pointless, especially at Belmont. There could be 20,000 there and it still feels like a ghost town. Even at Saratoga it is better to watch on television than live. What do you get a 2 second glimpse of the horses sitting on the rail. You miss all the strategy sitting on the rail. And opening day in baseball is useless. Nobody cares. |
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![]() take out will not keep your average joe blow fan from coming from the track, they most likely don't even know it exists.
make the day at the track fan friendly and they will come - a little advertising goes a long way - plain and simple. |
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They should hire a young actress ... someone not overly beautiful ... someone like ... oh, say ... Laurie Petty ... and show her going to the track ... and running around and jumping up and down ... and having a good time ... ... and come up with a catchy slogan ... like ... ummm ... like ... how about "Go, Baby ... Go!" ... yeah, something like that ... and keep playing it all over the TV. Yeah ... that'll work ... I know it will. |
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![]() Move Belmont about 20 miles closer to civilization and that attendance doubles.
I really have no idea who, in their right mind, is skipping work, or even getting out of bed and driving (or even worse, taking the train) all the way out to Elmont on a rainy weekday afternoon. I'm surprised they had as much attendance as they did. |
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Literally millions of people live within a 15-mile radius. We think Timbuktu is far away ... but lots of folks just call it "home." |
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And since I don't know you and don't know if are personally around horse all day or not. Don't really care actually.
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It just gives you that much more appreciation for Saratoga, Del Mar and Keeneland.
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... try the winter racing at Aqueduct ... where the elite meet. |
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![]() If you go to the Big A make sure it is pouring down sleet and really, really cold on a Wood Memorial Saturday....that is experiencing it at it's finest!
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![]() Seriously, I love live racing. I love watching the horses in the ring, I love walking back and forth to the track; I love standing in line to bet and listening the people around me; I love being in the sunshine all day (or the pouring rain- I remember shivering in the rain for two hours before Funny Cide's Belmont so I wouldn't lose my spot at the rail) I love it all. And I love Belmont and love the train ride out. Maybe I'm just a junkie for mass transit. Or just a junkie for horses. ![]() Thanks for the clarification on the tracks closing, BB. I don't know why I thought it was more than a few tracks... go figure. |
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Just think of it ... all the great G1 races ... right here in our own home town. Ooops ... again ... I gotta stop watching "Meet Me In St. Louis." |