Hollywood's First Cushion Track Meet

[philcski]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Then how could the handle only be up 19%? With 9 extra days?

ALL SOURCES handle was actually up from $232.2MM in '05 to $352.8MM in '06. The 19% figure is CDSN's average daily handle... ($6.5MM from $5.5MM)

Originally Posted by philcski

ALL SOURCES handle was actually up from $232.2MM in '05 to $352.8MM in '06. The 19% figure is CDSN's average daily handle... ($6.5MM from $5.5MM)

Thank You Phil. Stated like that it totally changes the math. The original poster didnt specify average, and it was stated to lead me to believe it was an overall 19% increase.
I'd say then it was nowhere as bad as I thought it was originally, and you can understand my premise before that working off only a 19% total incease as opposed to daily.
Its about what you would expect with the return of grass races and the turf festival.
I'd say in reality then, it wasn't disastrous, but wasn't great either.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Thank You Phil. Stated like that it totally changes the math. The original poster didnt specify average, and it was stated to lead me to believe it was an overall 19% increase.
I'd say then it was nowhere as bad as I thought it was originally, and you can understand my premise before that working off only a 19% total incease as opposed to daily.
Its about what you would expect with the return of grass races and the turf festival.
I'd say in reality then, it wasn't disastrous, but wasn't great either.

I'd love to see a per-race handle to see if turf racing or dirt racing generates more interest. I honestly have no idea. I'd guess it's completely correlated to field size rather than surface...