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12-12-2011, 09:06 AM
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I think the overall function of getting people all excited about a big jackpot score is key, and glad it started out there instead of one-off win bets.
Last time I took people who had no background in the sport to the track was in Hong Kong, where there was a US$12 million carryover in what is, essentially, a triple-trifecta (as opposed to a twin-tri). You can play it many different ways, and you don't earn exchanges, but we were alive for a reduced chunk of the pot going into the last leg and the two newbies with me were stoked, and both have gone back to the track since. We lost, but the consolation we got back was more than the bet, so they felt like they won. Big jackpots stoke the fires of the youth that are used to such scores through Vegas, poker, etc...from the betting angle of the game, I'm glad they started there. 
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12-12-2011, 09:58 AM
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I didn't get a chance to watch it but will.
However -- I don't understand why anyone would do a drama on horse racing in this era instead of the era between Plunger Walton and Pittsburg Phil. Horse racing has been mercilessly strangled by extreme government regulation. The late 1880's and 1890's was the wild west for horse racing ... and wasn't Deadwood from around that time? Plunger Walton was one part Tony Soprano and one part Sam "Ace" Rothsetin and though as schemeing and devious as they come... his life story was as amazing as it gets. He was a tabloid sensation in both the United States and England. This was how his obituary in the New York Times ended... 
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