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04-19-2016, 03:01 PM
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Canterbury cutting takeout to lowest in US
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04-20-2016, 06:51 AM
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While the state government talks only of raising all sorts of taxes and fees, it's nice to see Canterbury thinking of it's customer base. Good for the 'hometown' track!
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04-20-2016, 10:15 AM
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05-19-2016, 09:59 PM
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Great interview with Randy Sampson on ATR today. Its time to see if Canterbury can show the country that reduced takeout will significantly increase handle.
Canterbury has raised the bet. Are players gonna fold, call or raise? Its time for players to put there money where there mouth is.
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05-20-2016, 12:26 AM
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05-20-2016, 12:55 AM
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05-20-2016, 12:58 AM
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Thanks for listening. Was pleased to get Sampson in advance of their season and herald their widespread initiatives promoting their product at all levels. Hope they have strong results. One sidebar that we didn't get to Thursday was this enhancement to odds presentation: 10-Second Odds Updates: In conjunction with United Tote, Canterbury Park will offer win odds that update every 10-seconds when there is less than 10 Minutes to Post. This change will provide Canterbury Park and its customers the most real-time win odds in North American horse racing. We believe that this advancement in the tote system will greatly benefit customers as they will constantly have access to the most current win odds.
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05-21-2016, 08:28 AM
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Post script from last night.............attendance on track of 7,439 bet $243,802 but the total with simulcast money was $840,999............beautiful evening and the crowd turned out. Most seemed more interested in food and beverages but regardless the folks at Cby are pretty happy with the start and it was fun hearing the "roar of the crowd"..........should be a pretty fun meet all summer.
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05-21-2016, 08:49 AM
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Gary Palmisano of CD offered this rough cut of the numbers..
2015: $632k (20.4% blended T/O) = 129k revenue 2016- $845k (16.5% blended T/O) = 139k revenue Handle +30% = Revenue +$10k
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05-21-2016, 09:04 AM
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And we be like..."Told you so!"
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05-23-2016, 10:18 AM
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05-23-2016, 02:55 PM
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I've never even look at Canterbury before but I'm going to play for sure just to do my part and they are rewarded for helping the players out.
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05-23-2016, 06:50 PM
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They announced on their website that Saturday's total handle was up 20% over last year's Preakness day handle.
That's somewhat surprising with all the afternoon competition. I expect the night time cards will get the bigger boost.
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05-23-2016, 07:13 PM
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05-25-2016, 12:04 AM
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I love their turf racing. I visited the track a couple of years ago and was very impressed. After the first couple of weeks, when they switch to 4 days a week, you usually get 3 turf races a day, with 8 or more horses. SoCal should be so lucky.
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05-25-2016, 05:54 AM
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Please don't perpetuate myths, or lies, here. CD raised takeout in an attempt to maintain their purse structure so as not to lose horses to other jurisdictions. While the decision was simplistic and myopic, it wasn't done just 'because they could'. It's unbalanced that there is never an acknowledgement in discussions on this topic that they are surrounded by casino-fueled states (IN, OH, PA, WV) and are without the luxury of alternate revenues like KY Downs/Ellis (Instant Racing funding) or Keeneland (Sales Company funding). And in terms of dollars and cents, their pricing remained rather fair. Their rates on WPS were industry low-ish (16%) and were raised to a middling 17.5%. Their multi horse and and multi rate rake was industry low-ish (19%) and went to a rather typical 22%, lower than NY and CA on most multis.
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05-25-2016, 05:57 AM
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984.
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05-25-2016, 07:19 AM
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Many people probably don't know about the unusual OTB/ADW rules in Minnesota. Well actually there is no OTB at all because a state amendment vote failed many years back. Thus, MN players are allowed to have ADW accounts but are blocked from betting Canterbury's signal.
So for the most part their best potential customers (MN bettors) must be on track to bet their races. This has improved slightly as you can now bet at Running Aces, the harness track in the northern suburbs.
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