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As we are starting to see (and was pointed out by yours truly many years earlier) too may tracks, too many races, and now too few horses being bred. Meaning the older stock is way OVER PRICED, the babies coming to the sale are a product of drugs and over priced which produces inflated numbers at the sale concerning MONEY SPENT at the sale plus inflated numbers on average sale price. Probably by 2020 the game as we know it now, will be in a much smaller market. No new money, no new faces, and hopefully NO KNEW IDEAS by Gooooffffrrrraaaa lllll Inc
Agree ,too many tracks.I myself would be happy with each state having a fair circuit,sire stakes program with different levels(like Ny)including sire stakes races for older horses and a grand circuit program. Get rid of overnight racing.Get rid of the catch drivers and get back to the trainer/driver days. I remember the old days in NJ when each farm had their fair racing thru the summer. No wagering just pure racing it was very enjoyable.
Super why the wtf? Because harness racing is doing so well? Lmao it’s a god dam Carnevale. Seriously, did you see one person on the tarmac sat. Night at Yonkers for a 500,000 plus race? 137,000 wagered on that race? Really WTF
2) the increase in purses would decrease the temptation of fixing races.
Super, I never said that increased purses would stop the chemists. Whole different subject. That falls under policing the sport and improved testing. What I did say was that increased purses would discourage Race fixing example being drivers trainers and owners racing for 1200 purses at places like monti and freehold. Ya think they are making a living racing for that? If you have SS pusrses upward of 50 thousand wouldn’t it be an incentive to drivers owners and trainers to give it the old college try verses going dead with the favorite in order to put food on the table?