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Come on, Bond. Your an intelligent man. You really believe track and casino owners are sabotaging their own product, so they can decouple ? That they have a product that was or can be profitable but they just refuse to support it? How many different ways can one market support all the gambling products in one market? Monticello, just like every other harness track has not had a product that generate enough support from the customers they serve in almost 30 years. There is no chicken and the egg scenario going on here. It is clear, the reason there is no support from the track owners is, there is no demand from customers. There is no food vendors, parking attendants, bars, floor attendants, and just a couple of betting clerks is, there is nobody there. The track owner did not wake up one day and chase the crowd and all the vendors away. Competition for the gambling and entertainment dollar gobbled up what was one a solid business. So, after 30 years of one failed plan after another. Decades of millions of dollars in subsidies, should this support of a losing proposition start drafting an exit plan or, just continue to throw good money after bad?
Apparently it is still relevant. 550K in 9 races today. Many harness tracks don't come close to that.