I would love to see a character based upon Crist's book "Betting on Myself." There are some really fascinating people that make up racing, but it sounds like the show choose to create characters that fullfill the stereotype of horse racing.

How many attractively dressed ladies with loose leafs of the days entries do you find on an odd friday night in Jan at penn nat.. Save you I think there was perhaps on or two other women with a full set of teeth. The racetrack isnt exactly the Met after the nutcracker during Christmas.

And Keeneland, Saratoga, Del Mar, etc. are exactly Charles Town on a Tuesday night.

Don't get you're point Fred... I've stayed out of the discussion because I don't think this show will bring 1 person to, or lose 1 person from the track. Nor will it change anyone's perception of the sport in general - it's a non issue.

As far as the "typical" stereotypes - the old adage that "stereotypes exist, because they're true" may be what they're are trying to go for - I've highlighted 4 of them in my previous post - that's the only point I made.

There are a tons of normal, well adjusted, intelligent folks on here and at the track. Of course a story about them would be the epitome of boring.

I'm not judging the entire series on one episode - The pilot was horrendous in my opinion, not because of they chose to exploit these stereotypes, but because it just flat out sucked.

it's an action/drama HBO series. Not a documentary on horse racing. I think, in this case, it falls under the "any publicity is good publicity" phrase.