BIG M'S HANDLE DOLDRUMS RETURN

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NOV 3   $2,539,968

NOV 10  $2,077,898

WONDER WHY THE MEDIA DEPOT LAST WEEK DIDNT GIVE CREDIT TO THE BREEDERS CUP FOR THE BUMP IN HANDLE?  NO CUP THIS WEEK AND THE MEDS TOOK A SHOT TO THE BALLS

[Duke]

Still by far the best track to bet into in harness...nothing comes close to this handle.

[Pull the Pocket]

Still by far the best track to bet into in harness...nothing comes close to this handle.

So you like being a minnow in an ocean?  Only to be swallowed by a whale.

[Atthetrack7]

Still by far the best track to bet into in harness...nothing comes close to this handle.

Why do all you $2 betters think you can play with the Cartel?

[Atthetrack7]

Name a track in the US that handles more. Oh that's right..YOU CAN'T JACKASS! or should I say Joe Faraldo

Since you are prolly a horseman, I will type slowly so you can understand

The big M's handle is dropping week by week.  Gamblers are going elsewhere to get their fix

[PIGLAND]

ron burke might be the reason less money gets bet there

[Wilderness Don]

 In truth, the only money number that is important, is the purses the horsemen race for. Handle don't mean squat

[Joe 4 all]

Spoken like a true JACKASS. Firstly, without handle, purses go down asshole and secondly without handle, I guess you enjoy knocking a 10-1 shot down to 2-1 with your 50 dollar bet. What a fucking moron.

  Mickey, the only important HANDLE number is how many time the casino customers pull that handle. The silver haired old ladies wasting their husbands pension pulling that handle is all I really care about. 

[HornbyDuke]

Ignore handle at a long term risk to the health of racing. If handle isn't impt just imagine it sinks to 0. The question then is do the blinders come off the public and bean counters and they see tracks like Yonkers like what they are: just a giant form of welfare to a small select group. Sure some jobs come with this the diversion of $ to racing , but my opinion is the public will decide there are other industries this money would be better vested and more jobs sustained.

When the diversion of $ began, I believe there was some expectation that racing would take steps to enhance its prospect of once again being self-sustaining. Clearly that hasn't happened. Just a matter of time to Yonkers being delinked and the oval heading to he used for racing. I already hear state taxpayers that understand complain that a lot if the state dollars are going to Canadians and out of state owners trainers.

[lesstired]

All Harness Racing is simply charity for the drivers,owners,trainers.....


with a 25% takeout....it is amazing that M(1) gets over a million


bet....while YR only 1/2 mill.....


YR purses 2x 3x 4x the M(1)


Real drivers at YR     M  B for the most part until Campbell


returns.     

[HornbyDuke]

Handle is larger because (in particular order):

1. Yonkers/Pocono allow more trainers that have a reputation amongst gamblers for using peds.  These trainers are often short prices and from a gambling view ruin p3, 4 etc. Med and mohawk are seen as a little more regulated.
2. Consistently larger fields. Gamblers like the better payoffs. 3. Outside posts while compromised at mile tracks still have a chance. On 1/2 mile tracks this is very rare.
4. 1/2 mile tracks are almost always inside speed bias. No movement. Closers are compromised at mohawk and meadowlands this is not true.

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FRIDAY HANDLE

2018   $1,799,372
2017   $2,079,245

HAS TRUMP PUT TARIFFS ON THE MEADOWLANDS HANDLE?

[Calhoun]

Please explain to me why you compare handle from 1 year ago. Different number of races. Different class races. Different horses. Different drivers. Different weather. The only constant is that is the same jackass that bashes M1 when they have a sub par night but is nowhere to be found when they do well.

You're right.

We should compare Big M's handle to Lucy's Lemonade Stand sales.

[Atthetrack7]

 Handle is dropping at the meadowlands, perhaps showing there is no reason for New Jersey to supplement purses by throwing good money after bad.

[Calhoun]

Once again jackass, name another harness track that handles more...oh wait, you can't dick face.

Mohawk last night?