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Originally Posted by oracle80
How much do YOU have invested into this industry?
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hmm. Nothing as an owner or breeder. Countless hours as a fan and large amounts of both time and money as a bettor. It would be interesting to add up how much I've "invested" as a bettor.
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Originally Posted by oracle80
Start telling owners that spent 10 million that they can't get back that money spent and you can count on lots of em just leaving. The only way they can it back under the current structure is in the shed. If you raised purses in stakes races all year long you would atleast give them SOME incentive to race on.
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I'm not sure deferring breeding for a year would have such a huge impact on owners that they would leave in droves. And I'm all for raising purses, but as you suggest yourself, it's not much incentive.
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Originally Posted by oracle80
Why would someone choose to try and race on with a horse and try and win a million pre expense bucks next year, when they can stand him for 40 or 50 grand a whack and get back some of the money they have spent in this business?
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Absolutely no reason, unless they are not allowed to by regulation.
--Dunbar