Handle Decline Continues...

[MaTH716]

Maybe instead of giving out vouchers this year, tracks could start giving out gas cards.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

Maybe instead of giving out vouchers this year, tracks could start giving out gas cards.

They'd have to get there first.

Yeah but GP increased handle a few million on Sunday so this thread is not entirely accurate.

We're going to treat this sport like liberals treat an Obama accomplishment.

Need the groundwork? Ok here go...

Ignore all the failures. Go bonkers on the occasional accomplishment and dismiss all the failures.

[10 pnt move up]

Racing and its partners have done all they could to drive people away from playing....they are past just economic times, and it will never come back.

And there won't be a bailout. Horse racing isn't part of the PC umbrella of businesses that can't "fail"

It's just funny how some people have a positive outlook on the sport to this day. Like a crowd of over 14,000 with 33 million handle in a metropolis is somehow praiseworthy. Yeah it is when you compare only to the previous year. The overall decline is staggering.

[pointman]

The fact that the country has not recovered from the recession but the government continues to lie to people and claim that it has must be considered in any decline. The truth is that this country is still in a recession, people are hurting for money and don't have the money to play at the windows right now.

[Split Rock]

Originally Posted by pointman

The fact that the country has not recovered from the recession but the government continues to lie to people and claim that it has must be considered in any decline. The truth is that this country is still in a recession, people are hurting for money and don't have the money to play at the windows right now.

Pure and utter garbage. Just garbage. Yes, some people are hurting for money and those people would be hurting in a "good" economy, too.

Why can't people understand the real truth behind the staggering decline. It is almost parallel with the influx of illegal drugs in the game. Once big players started to feel the game was not legitimate, they left and are on to other things. When you take away enough huge players, the handle declines, the takeout raises, more people leave, less people win, etc.

I can't believe people don't understand that the trainers that are cheating and winning at 35, 45, 55 percent are doing so at the collapse of the game. The fact that trainers like Chambers, Guerrero, Ness, etc keep winning at this high rate means the game can't or won't clean it up. PED's mean speed carries. Speed that carries = even money at most tracks. AQU and SA are littered with $18 pick 4 payouts. All of this is killing the popularity of the game. Thus, real players will stay away.

Not hard to understand.