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Racing is certainly not doing great in Southern California, but if you look at their numbers, I don't think the numbers are down any more than anywhere else. I think the handle at Hollywood Park was down 10% or something like that. I don't think that's any worse than anywhere else. If racing goes downhill so badly in Southern California that the purses drop in half, then I agree with you that guys would start moving away. But we're nowhere near that point yet and I don't think it will happen. There are actually just as many top trainers shipping into California as shipping out. Pletcher ships to California quite a bit and he even keeps a string here for alot of the year. Guys like Mott, Romans, and Clement are shipping in for big races. Biancone is now here full time, although he's not nearly as big as he used to be. Anyway, I don't see any imminent demise of California racing. And with regards to Rosario, now that he is doing better than ever and was just leading rider at HP, I think he would have to be out of his mind to leave. |
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And you aren't including jock mount that they also get 25% of that... |
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Vic could answer the question as to exactly what they get on 2nds, 3rds, 4ths, and 5ths in stakes races and non-stakes races. You are right that since the jocks don't get 10% for 4ths and 5ths in non-stakes races, that they will actually make slightly less than 10% of their total earnings for the year. But most of their money comes from the wins, 2nds, and 3rds. If a jock's mounts earn $12 million in purses, he will probably end up with a little less than $1.2 million. He may end up with $1.1 million or so and then his agent gets 25% of that. |
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By the way, can't you you guys bill for a 4th place finish in a big race. I remember getting billed by Gomez' agent for a placing in a stakes race. I thought it was for a 4th place finish in a $1 million race but now that I think about it, it may have been for a different race. He rode a horse for us that finished 3rd in a $150,000 race. That may have been the race he billed us for. I can't remember. If you guys run 4th in a Breeder's Cup race, you wouldn't bill the owner? Fourth place in the Classic pays around $300,000. |
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Freedy your way off base here within 2 years Maidens Will be running for 100k, THere are currently 2000+ slot machines at woodbine and they are constantly expanding to keep up with Demand. HECK WEG is in the process of starting a 1 Billion dollar expansion Called "WOODBINE LIVE" When that is done there will be no other place like it in the World. Fat Man has got it right if a jock were to Leave Cali or Ky or NY Woodbine would Be the place to relocate Because things are on the upswing there for the forseeable future. Thats also why you are seeing so Many Trainers from the States Applying for stalls there. |
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Woodbine is an incredible place.. thier expansion plans are also quite awesome. If anything, US tracks should try to model their business off Woodbine, they are one of the very few who get it.
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