Meadowlands begging for stakes money

[stanetelman]

As the Grand Circuit stakes season gets underway, The Meadowlands needs the support of those in the industry who benefit most from these stakes to help cover the cost of maintaining the program at its current level by sponsoring them. 
"The Meadowlands needs all the sponsorship money we can raise, every penny of which goes directly into stakes purse account," said Meadowlands’ Chief Operating Officer and General Manager Jason Settlemoir. "None of it goes to cover the shortfall in operating costs which Jeff is covering out of his own pocket. The fact is that business-wise, The Meadowlands would benefit by reducing the purse money spent on stakes racing and increasing the purses for overnight racing. Tracks in Pennsylvania and New York choose to offer very few and spend far less on open stakes despite the tens of millions in ancillary revenue they get from gaming, a resource The Meadowlands does not have since the horsemen do not, and will not ever, get a share of the sportsbook revenue."

Meadowlands media relations

[MR.DALRAE]

This guy is unbelievable

[HarnessFan1981]

Here's the article

https://ustrottingnews.com/meadowlands-seeks-stakes-sponsors/

[Mailbox Money]

The marketing department at M1 needs an overhaul. There is no excuse for not having corporate sponsorship for the stakes races. They are located in a major metropolitan area that is home to thousands of companies and corporations! If the packages are put together in an innovative way along with a first class promo team, there should be no excuse not to succeed!

[Generation XYZ]

You all understand by now. Or at least one would hope you do, that These people always cry poor, and that they're going to shut down etc. etc.  So does this mean they don't know how to operate a track, or do they know exactly how to keep screwing the system under the mask of short falls.  Come on public. Get wise to this bull shit.

[The Exporter]

The marketing department at M1 needs an overhaul. There is no excuse for not having corporate sponsorship for the stakes races. They are located in a major metropolitan area that is home to thousands of companies and corporations! If the packages are put together in an innovative way along with a first class promo team, there should be no excuse not to succeed!

Absolutely. Located in one of the most lucrative and affluent markets in the world. So, when a sponsor puts up big bucks to advertise their products or services, they expect a decent return in new sales . The Meadowlands can't deliver that. So, the sponsors you do attract tend to be industry insiders and don't pay very much. Where is Michele Crawford's ego and her hubbies money when you need something like a Times Square ad. 

[Generation XYZ]

Absolutely. Located in one of the most lucrative and affluent markets in the world. So, when a sponsor puts up big bucks to advertise their products or services, they expect a decent return in new sales . The Meadowlands can't deliver that. So, the sponsors you do attract tend to be industry insiders and don't pay very much. Where is Michele Crawford's ego and her hubbies money when you need something like a Times Square ad.

Exporter your 110% correct! But they refuse ti hire a person or firm worth the money to go after sponsorship dollars.  Instead they drain attendees with a bad product and a few select gamblers who dont put anything into the sport that they live off of. (I'm not talking horsemen either). I' speaking of Gural's supposed whales.

[Locked in with pace]

It's amazing how this guy cries poverty. It never ends.

[Generation XYZ]

No it well never end. And nor will it end with the amount of idiots that think this guy is a harness racing savior.  Gural is a trojan horse that will imploding the sport from the inside.

[Kirby's Ace]

Gural reminds me of my ex-wife. Always complaining and never has enough money!

 

[Generation XYZ]

Gural reminds me of my ex-wife. Always complaining and never has enough money!

 

  The man should not be in this business.

[Superfecta]

The man should not be in this business.

He is there because he thought he would get a Casino just across the river from New York City. He failed. He fell in to shit with the sports book and that is the only reason he is still there.
He is the worst hypocrite and personally I refuse to support him and his shit product.

[Assassinator]

This reminds me of the guy you see panhandling for money at intersections and at the end of the day gets in his Mercedes-benz and drives home...like fucking enough already...you have arguably the best track that racing can be at yet no money...maybe cut out all these fucking amateur races who no one wants to bet on for starters and get a company who can market your product instead of the same shit for 20+ years.

[Yonkers1A]

Who is going to pay to advertise to 70 year bums picking tickets off the floor. I’m 63 and I’m a young horse player, maybe AARP

[Parked]

If the big farm want to have their names on stakes and spend money advertising their horses that won big stakes, let them ante up more for the stakes purses.
If you wonder where the money is start by comparing pictures (or visiting) of the many breeding operations and compare their condition with a stop at a race track. 

Every year new records are set at the yearling sales yet we never hear how much more the commercial breeders put back into stake races.