When does the $1,000,000 a day start at MTH?

[Travis Stone]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Travis ... LAD is in the same friggin state as Evangeline Downs.

Forget Monmouth Park ... you have a red headed stepchild who all of a sudden is blooming into a full fledged hottie right in your own stomping grounds.

EVD averages over 10 starters per race on dirt - and now they have a brand new turf course ... that's a cheaper brand of racing - but it's product is at it's absolute finest.

They always have, their field size has always dwarfed ours. This is the first year though where EVD is consistently whipping us in handle. Even if you factor in our loss of field size (which is not super significant overall, but there none-the-less), we should't be doing as poorly as we are. And we're not the only track posting such numbers.

When you erase the industry factor, the only other significant change has been Monmouth. They're yanking a few million more per day away from the middle to lower tier tracks. Our Thursday handle this year has been solid... a day when there is no Monmouth.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

They always have, their field size has always dwarfed ours. This is the first year though where EVD is consistently whipping us in handle. Even if you factor in our loss of field size (which is not super significant overall, but there none-the-less), we should't be doing as poorly as we are.

This is only the 2nd year that EVD has run turf races - as they recently had a turf course installed for the first time.

I know that 10 years ago MTR racing was a very big thing among the small group of semi-serious and serious local players .. and those guys are all on the EVD bandwagon right now. I don't blame them either ... if you can stand real cheap racing .. or actually love it ... that's as good as it gets. I think people are slowly starting to figure that out. MTR racing is on a downword spiral.