Quote:
Originally Posted by Robert Fischer
Should we be focused on artificially equalizing trainers?
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"We have to try to help these guys" - Tim Ritvo
Once again, most of you and the rest of the entire industry are missing the crucial concern here.
"Trainers" are not, and will never be
chief among the concerns of horse racing or its well being. Everyone knows that
ping-pong balls do not need trainers. The speculative game of race horse ownership is a separate entity from the core concerns relating to the future of horse racing. Race horses might as well be bitcoins where it concerns any connection between their worth and the wagering dollar.
The bottom line is that nearly every other form of gambling/gaming features significant parity among the gambling/gaming crowd, and horse racing does not. The
guys Tim Ritvo needs to help are
not the unrelated speculators on the backstretch, they are the people who have been right in front of his eyes for decades, toward whom Tim Ritvo has perhaps only lifted a single
finger during his entire career.
Horse racing should be
focused on "artificially equalizing" its own gambling crowd,
so as to put itself on equal footing with all of the competition (for the gambling dollar) which has assembled nearby and since the 1970's.
It's as simple as now
doing (at least)
SOMEthing for your customers, for what would be the collective first times in the entire careers of many race track operators.
Stop giving customers Tim Ritvo's
finger.
