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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Ok so you make some improvements to the existing track. But isnt handle being shifted more and more off track?
Like it or not the horseman are partners with the tracks. Always have been. We provide the product. The tracks wants to expand their menu? Fine but as their partner we get a piece of the action. Why is this hard to understand?
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I don't care that you spoke about my business, I really don't. It is doing just fine and you suggesting it needs help is silly. For all I know you are doing just fine too, I hope you are.
Now, back to the topic. Of course it is shifting away from the tracks, so stop paying ridiculous amounts of money to run plants that are too big and/or unnecessary. Stop trying to get people to bet on **** races and then complaining you need slots to survive. As Fred says, way too many tracks, way too many races, not enough horses. As evidenced by the racing at places like EvD and Mnr and FL, there is a line where people are simply not going to bet much on bad horses.
I agreed with you it is mostly the tracks (your partner) selling their soul to the devil. Slots do hurt handle. First, there are people that bet horses that move to slots, not the other way around. Second, keeping these tracks open creates a worse product at other tracks. I can't believe you can't see that. Look at the quality of racing in New York compared to 10 years ago. There is pretty much no hard knocking claimers left, the former bread and butter of racing. They are spread among Philly, Delaware, Monmouth, etc.
If you don't see my point, that is fine, I'm sure I'm missing some of yours. I'm sure short term slots are great, but long term, I'm sure they are not. Rather than beg for welfare, racing should be fixing the product. If they don't, states will realize they didn't need racing in the first place to suck away people's money via slots.