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06-11-2007, 06:17 PM
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Racing boost???
I'm no genius, but am a cable/racing junkie who likes to gamble. If they really want to boost interest in the 'Sport of Kings' they should show the horse racing channels for free. Whenever they show an hour or so of free horse racing (it happens sometimes on my system), i always think, "Damn, I want to get in on that sort of action, I would have had that winner". I don't subscribe 'cause I would be too consumed to lead a normal life, but other channel surfers my get intrigued and begin to follow the sport. I'm I being naive, or am I on to something?
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06-11-2007, 06:19 PM
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06-11-2007, 06:19 PM
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06-11-2007, 06:29 PM
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06-11-2007, 06:34 PM
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Just a thought here.... when racing was really big, horses were more a part of a lot of peoples lives...kinda like Nascar is big now because cars are more a part of everyday life now....When I was a kid I had cousins that lived on farms and they had horses....my kids don't have cousins that live on farms and other than me they don't know anyone who is even interested in horses.
All that being said I've got no idea how to really bring racing back to prominence... maybe a cartoon character(sp?) super hero that is a race horse...maybe a few more TV series that have racing as a backdrop...maybe a Charlottes Web of horse racing....maybe a series of college course electives Handicapping 101...maybe playboy doing a series of issues on "Girls of the Backstretch"
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06-11-2007, 06:39 PM
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stop pkucking over the gamblers....
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06-11-2007, 06:43 PM
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Racing does not need to be brought back to prominence, just run it right, treat your customers better, understand where you stand in the marketplace and fight for lower taxation and we would be just fine.
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06-11-2007, 06:47 PM
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06-11-2007, 06:48 PM
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06-11-2007, 06:52 PM
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06-11-2007, 06:55 PM
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I think I'm kinda' addicted to "live' Tv. I can watch a live 1 to 2 minute event, that no one can predict how will end, except for the lucky bettors, and be excited, especially if I'm one of those lucky bettors. It doesn't get any better than that. Maybe that can't compete with casino gambing, or secks, but we gotta get more people involved. Hopefully secks timing might compare to a steeplecase race?
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06-11-2007, 07:02 PM
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I'd gladly pay an extra $9.99 a month if Ken Rudolph would talk like Buckwheat.
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06-11-2007, 07:08 PM
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A good video game might help.
You know how Tiger Woods has his own golf game every year and they call it Tiger Woods 06 or Tiger Woods 07? Well how about a....Funny Cide 07!! C'mon that would be the best idea ever! Funny Cide promoting horse racing to teenagers and young adults!  There was a video game with Ghostzapper on the cover but c'mon....the general public doesn't care about Ghostzapper!
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06-11-2007, 07:14 PM
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06-11-2007, 07:18 PM
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Game was the pits. I was sooo excited when I first heard about it. I was disappointed to say the least. It was sooo bad, they didnt even bother making it better the next yr. ..One and done...Not even Tom Durkin's voice could help, lol...
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06-11-2007, 07:22 PM
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The only horse racing game I ever played was in Vegas. The one that had 4 mechanical horses under a plastic dome. Bet quarters on which exacta would come in...the odds changed for every race. I spent a lot of hours in the 80's playing that game.
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06-11-2007, 07:40 PM
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06-11-2007, 08:35 PM
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I think the only way it comes back to prominence is if (pipe-dream about to follow... brace yourselves) these greedy owners let their horses run through the end of the 4-year old years. THAT'S ALL I ASK.
It's like asking a college basketball star to stay through the end of his sophomore season (the same pipe-dream: see Kevin Durant and Greg Oden)... not likely to happen. But just think- If horses stayed through their 4-year old seasons, the following horses (barring injury, and mysterious owner imposed injury... see Smarty hoof brusing lol) could be in the BC Classic this year: Street Sense, Hard Spun, Curlin, Rags to Riches, Invasor, Bernardini, Papi Chulo, Perfect Drift, Lava Man, Discreet Cat, etc etc etc. Some of these are stretches, but... Now I have a solution for owners that would try to claim injury so they don't risk their horses running: Don't let them breed until they turn 5. Have a Vet do a paternity test on every foal and how old the foal is compared to the father. If he is foaled too early, deem him ineligable to ever race (ONCE AGAIN, I KNOW THIS IS A PIPE-DREAM). To even think of that idea, you're taking a hard line vs. the Sheiks and the Coolmores and whoever else. They might say, "if you don't give us the choice of when we can run/retire/breed our horses, we won't show up at Keeneland with our $$$". But at this point, I think the sheiks and the Coolmores are ruining racing by buying up all the talent and summarilty retiring them anyway. So let them boycott. I KNOW THIS IS ALL SOME CRACK-HEAD PIPE DREAM STUFF, BUT RACING THROUGH TH BC AT AGE 4... IS THAT ALL THAT MUCH TO ASK?
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06-11-2007, 09:08 PM
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