When does the $1,000,000 a day start at MTH?

[Round Pen]

Originally Posted by HomerS

Good question. Shocked at all the emotion this simple question generated.

me and you both.
Just looking at the whole situation this way if you take the entire stakes book for the whole season the total amount of purses is around 12.5 million (give or take a little). THen take an average of 10 races a day (excluding Stakes) for a 50 day meet that means those races alone must average around 750k a day to reach the 50 million mark.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

I think the slogan for a lot of bad tracks should be "at least we're not Presque Isle"

This from a general news opinion writer in todays paper ...

Unbelievably, two $75,000 stakes races last Friday went off with just five horses in one field, and four in the other. Veteran racing fan Leo Kwiatkowski shook his head in disbelief as he examined the terrible betting odds in the chronically short fields, especially for the most lucrative races.

It's frustrating, but nothing compared to the lack of tables and chairs for fans, who apparently must bring their own chairs to avoid seeking out concrete steps or construction debris to lean on. One woman from Corry said she would gladly offer to pick up about 20 umbrella tables at Walmart to make the fan experience more tolerable.

Let's face it. For a facility that makes more than $1.5 million in clear profit on slot machines every week and is about to launch table games amid a $25 million expansion, coughing up a few tables for racing fans doesn't seem to be asking a whole lot.

The casino's treatment of racing fans should embarrass them. Obviously, it doesn't

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I think the slogan for a lot of bad tracks should be "at least we're not Presque Isle"

This from a general news opinion writer in todays paper ...

As a horse player, someone whose primary focus is on BETTING, my only complaint with PID is that I really don't know what to do with NESS. At least at TAM, when his horses get hit, they typically win. Doesn't work this way at PID, which really complicates things. Something similar is happening at WO. Last year, when the juicer Jordan's horses got hit they almost always won. This year, they get hit and rather than keep on going in the stretch quite a few just collapse (like 'normal' horses would).