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Old 03-20-2007, 06:27 PM
blackthroatedwind blackthroatedwind is offline
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After both not understanding my point about educating fans, and criticizing it, you offered some vague possibilities and events that do happen, and attempts that have been tried many times and failed, and did not offer a single idea of your own as to how racing is going to make money without gambling.

Once again, if you create fans, and then don't teach them in any way how to bet even mildly effectively, then they will not contribute to the health and survival of the game. I did not say that my ideas about fan education are even close to the be-all-and-end-all for racing, but I believe they are the correct direction racing needs to take, and is currently not doing so.

Unless you have an original thought about how racing can help itself, and not telling us about putting races on TV, which has been done and is done, then it seems pretty ridiculous that you continue to make the assertions you do. The truth is if you don't understand that racing will only survive, or strengthen itself, by creating fans that bet, then you really don't understand the dynamics of this industry.
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Old 03-20-2007, 06:32 PM
Antitrust32 Antitrust32 is offline
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Use monkeys as jockeys. this is not an original idea. In my first RTIP class, wendy showed us an old video of a mexican dog race with monkeys strapped in as jockeys.

Maybe the funniest thing i have ever seen.

I think that monkeys could do just as well on the backs of T-breds (gotta be better than Tyler Baze) and a lot more people would go to the track to see it.

















man i really have to stop, i am so not funny
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Old 03-20-2007, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
Use monkeys as jockeys. this is not an original idea. In my first RTIP class, wendy showed us an old video of a mexican dog race with monkeys strapped in as jockeys.

Maybe the funniest thing i have ever seen.

I think that monkeys could do just as well on the backs of T-breds and a lot more people would go to the track to see it.





I tend to agree. You could've put an anchor on Epic Power this weekend at Santa Anita and that anchor would've put Nakatani to shame.
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