Not sure how it exactly works. Pools were probably an average of $40k/race yesterday. If average takeout is 15% that is $6,000 that was not collected for that race. How much of that goes into the purse account I'm not sure. Maybe the tote company has insurance to cover?? I thought that the closing of the wagering would be tied into the start timer or something and never imagined it was done manually in todays times.
this sport is run like it's 1959. so many techno opportunities * and, Still, the good, old fellers wanna run it like the old days. spit in the bucket, slap hands, wink o the eye and do it same as ever. It is a damned shame and that's the truth.
