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[westcoastinvader]

Originally Posted by dean smith

NASCAR has done an amazing job over the years getting people to watch and become fans with the promise that there will be crashes.

This is a whole other topic, but I think horse racing could do a lot for itself by taking a good look at what NASCAR has done. It's taken a sport suffering from major stigmas (it was too "red neck" and "Southern" for many, much like betting on animals is considered degenerate in many circles) and made it bigger than Jesus. Ah, I'm not going to get into it. I've rambled on long enough. They're going to kick me out of here.

Sorry, but I call BS on the "watch and become fans with the promise there will be crashes."

I've watched NASCAR for 14 years with people who have watched NASCAR with their fathers and families for 40 years.

Crashes are an incidental part of the sport that only to matter to a real fan in terms of how one's driver is affected and impacted in the final race finish.

No one that I know that REALLY follows NASCAR is looking to see wrecks. Unless we're talking about rubbing paint at Bristol or something similar.

For the record, I've been a thoroughbred racing fan for about 3 times my NASCAR fan years.

And I'll jump in on someone's comment about Ruffian that indeed that match race took the wind out of my thoroughbred racing fan sails for quite awhile.