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Originally Posted by stonegossard
In the end the horsemen are screwing both themselves and the game up. In the end a lot of horseplayers who dont have access to these tracks (CRC,CD,...etc) will permanently alienate them. I know on my end I dont even bother looking at CD entries or following their meet at all anymore. While I normally make a few trips to Calder by now, I have not gone once and have not made a single wager there yet. At some point if the horsemen at Calder smarten up and let out of state betting/adw's back into the game, I still probably wont bother. The quality of horses at CRC is beyond a joke, it might take a long time to fix the damage that has been done.
I hope the horsemen down here in Fla are happy with the result so far...they have all but destroyed horse racing down in S. Florida.
I applaud the owner of Ellis of basically telling the horsemen to go screw off. The guy cant run a business without out of state betting coming in, and the horsemen wont budge. I guess the horsemen would rather not run at all. Real smart move on the horsemen's end. Hopefully the McDonald's down in the Ellis area is hiring.
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well said....there is going to be a price to pay for all this ADW/Horseman/Track crap that is going on and it just might be the the end of racing in many parts of the country. Next up is socal. Not sure when the sport is going to realize that its the customer who makes the business model work, not the service provider. No customer, no business. The are slowly driving us away. My handle last year, 132k, this year its just less then 4k. Hope these guys are happy.