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what percent of total purses is slow welfare?
98.989898765%
What % of purses is goes to drug trainers? That's your indicator
I never said I believe harness racing is "healthy," because it's not. That would be a ludicrous opinion. It will likely be nonexistent in the next generation. I also never said that Per Race Avg. is the best way to gauge the economic state of harness racing. I actually think Avg. Purse/race is the best way to visualize the downfall of harness racing. Instead, I said that Per Race Wagering Avg. is a more informative figure than Total Wagered YTD. I believe this because when I refer to the "economic state of harness racing," I am referring to the economic state of harness racing TRACKS. Without the tracks for horses to race at, there is no harness racing. Without Hawthorne Racecourse, for example, there is no Illinois harness racing. Without Pompano Park, there is no Florida harness racing. This entire sport revolves around track owners and purse accounts. Seeing an increased Per Race Avg. says one thing: each harness race a track hosts in 2018 is drawing increased betting interest than a race in 2017. It's that simple. As wacky as it sounds, track owners are businessmen. In a business, the popularity of the product you are presenting (a horse race) is the #1 most important thing, and so far in 2018, that product is attracting more interest. With a declining # of race days, of course Total Purse $ is going to drop (which it actually hasn't), because there are fewer races to bet on! This figure says absolutely nothing about the popularity of the races that are actually run. All it says is that there are fewer races to bet on for the presumptive larger betting crowd compared to last year.
