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Originally Posted by freddymo

Yeah Steve they invented stuff at Bay Meadows that greatly helped the game..We all know about the photo finish camera etc. terriffic. Can you at least recognize the Bay Meadows was a failing business? Can you at least represent that the last 15 years of racing there was VERY below average. Can you speak to the crappy attendance and low handle because the product sucked.


I live near Freehold Raceway.. I remember when Niatross was there for the Dancer and they had 20k in attendance. Does this mean the place should stay opened for racing? There are 500 people there sometimes the place is devoid of patrons.. So because Freehold was an immensely important Standardbred track the owners are obligated to operate? Get Real, Wake Up the world changes and most importantly understand that nobody sells horses that make them tons of money to the kill pen for .30 a pound. And nobody demolishes thriving business because they can't stand the success. Bay Meadows is no more because the product didn't cut it, regardless of there 1934 starting gate implementation or Seabiscuit's great runs. Who the Fcuk cares that they invented the Daily Double there in 1947. They had 5 horse fields with 2 horses that could win for years.

I understood the progress and change aspect of this when the BMDC foreshadowed the closing. That was one thing... But the way things have turned out is quite another. The core point of Schwab's piece is that the track operating was preferable to what they have now. And there is no argument to be made against his rationale. The employment and tax generation for the community should simply be shrugged off? If the development project languishes for another 5 years, what then? Why was it so urgent to level the facility? And the same thing is going to happen in Inglewood.