Hawthorne Gold Cup

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Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann

IHA (or whatever its name is) pulled the signal from AP (without warning) from TVG because Hawthorne management had signed an exclusivity contract with with TVG. That meant that other folks who wanted to get the signal had to pay TVG a fee and Youbet said it wouldn't do it. That upset the IHA, so they tried to force TVG to make a special deal with Youbet. TVG gathered up its marbles and said "Fine, you don't want to be on our channel, we can fill the time just fine with other tracks." Cut off the nose to spite the face.

TVG is peanuts compared to what Youbet pulls....this was a good thing for the industry. IHA told TVG to knock off the bullying for their tracks. TVG has a crap track lineup and is only busy when Del Mar or Hollywood is running. When they lose Churchill's network, they will be screwed