Cumberland

[dougie]

Tough track to play. People stuff claimers with minimal claiming. Huge amount 0f 1/5 or less.

I agree. A lot of short prices. Every once in a while a "bomb" crosses the wire first. Usually has $40 bucks or so in the pools on the winner. LOL!

[whiptherabbit]

Cumberland makes Scarborough Downs look like a state of the art facility….

[chief yogi]

agreed. downs was a palace in compairson.  too bad, i thought cumberland would be improved some. the track is better but the rest is just awful. races are pretty much un betable. scott rambles so long he talks like every race the whole field has got a shot.   ks2 will dominate as long as he takes care of his self.
prop bet which happens first.    grandstand collapses or new track gets built.   grandstand collapses is barred from wagering.

[BrokenHeadPole]

By State law, First Tracks gets a very big number from the state each day to conduct racing. Not sure of the exact amount, so someone who knows, please share. You would think some of that money should be used to make the track more customer-friendly.

[Racetime]

I believe you can goggle it to see how much each track / fair receives from the state ?  I'm sure Chris, Ben, Gunnar and others get a good piece of what they receive ?

[chief yogi]

racetime you are so correct and thats the problem. all 3 make a good living runing a 50-60 day meet. plus they fly across the county to do it.  scott gets flown in and has a place to stay.  how much could be used to make cumberland better?  i know of an announcer who could cut that expense to almost nothing.
the only positive of this management crew is they did get the signal out everywhere but at a bargin price it only makes the handle look better.

[BrokenHeadPole]

What handle?

[Racetime]

I believe the track get over a million to race and it probably cost 10,000 a day to race ? 50 race days × 10,000 = 500,000 so there's 500,000 left over.

[chief yogi]

pretty close. i heard its about 12000 a day on average so a lot left over for the management team. so sad to see. i thought in 2020 that cumberland could have been fixed up a little and been a decent track.  dont really see what any plan is other than management making money. 100k off track handle equals about 2k in revenue. not any future for racing on that.

[oldjohn123]

Heard there will be a variety of food trucks based on demand. Seafood to Pizza.

Sorry no food trucks.

[BrokenHeadPole]

The weather must have scared them away. I saw only 5 cars lined up against the fence watching when that area is usually full, and only 2 people standing outside watching. That number of people would not make it profitable to go.

[Wawajones]

Bangor will be opening soon, much better facility

[Racetime]

Bangor is much more fan and horsemen friendly and a much nicer track.  No portajohns and a much nicer betting area than Cumberland.

[dougie]

Bangor is much more fan and horsemen friendly and a much nicer track.  No portajohns and a much nicer betting area than Cumberland.

I agree. Bangor is a much nicer track. I'm about 40 miles from Cumby and about 175 from Bangor. I've been to them both. I like Bangor better.