Corinthian or Bernardini

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Well, Joel, the actual " gambler ", or the person betting enough money to actually help support this game, is on average pretty unconcerned with the higher level racing, and thus these top horses that run infrequently don't really affect us.

It's much more about the 4th race on a Thursday than it is about the Travers. The Travers may be a lot more interesting to talk about but it is highly unlikely to be as interesting to bet as the Thursday mid day race.

Yeah, but check out the handle on the feature races on every card throughout America and compare it to just the average $10K claimers running in the 4th on a Thurs. afternoon at Thistledowns....the handle is astronomically bigger for the bigger races, which means that thgere is defiantely a coorelation between the dynamic nature of better racing and betting behavior.....just pure statistics....if people wanted to bet bad horses that run against each other every two weeks all of the time then Calder would have the biggest handle in our game because that is what they are good at, however, that is just not the case...

Bettors love to bet on races that 'matter' and they want to bet on good horses....If you play simo on any day from Thursday - Sunday, you can find 10-20 good races to bet on and be well-entertained and occupied without having to bet the 2nd at Fonner Park because it is the only thing to do....customers have shown the pattern that they prefer to bet QUALITY races and not the cheap nags.....Hell, look at the Derby...if Churchill Downs were to not run that one single race then they would lose over $200 million....Quality does matter and good horses breed quality...Obviously, quantity plays into it as well, but there is defiantely a handle pattern that suggests strongly that quality racing is heads and shoulders more profitable than the full field of maiden claimers assembled at Fairmont...