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Old 02-05-2020, 09:44 AM
freddymo freddymo is offline
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Originally Posted by Dahoss View Post
I don’t want to see anyone lose their jobs but how can this business model be sustained? If handle is only supporting 12% of the purses, it feels like a lot of people are making a lot of money in handouts.

Couple that with how these inflated purses water down racing in the region and it doesn’t seem like a good thing to continue down this path.
I live 55 miles from Parx I follow racing daily for 30 years I bet albeit way less now than in past. I think I watch about 5 races a year from Parx, I simply can not see a scenario save them reducing the rake dramatically that would get me to give a crap
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