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06-02-2011, 02:08 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Reno, NV
Posts: 16,930
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CA trainers getting paid $150 for showing up on Friday night
Is this true?
Recently came across my Facebook page in a post from Jude Feld.
Read my response here:
Horse Handicapping Authority on Facebook
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06-02-2011, 02:19 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Reno, NV
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Here is the simple content I posted. Please join/like my page on Facebook.
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And here you have a perfect understanding of the core issue in CA racing: The tail wags the dog.
(I think this is going to be deserving of a blog post by me in the near future.)
CA horsemen believe that the racing world centers around them. The industry is in peril, especially in CA and they're demanding extra money for showing up.
If you are a CA racing fan you might not like hearing this but yours is the model for how not to do it. The product is low quality (i.e. short fields), the takeout has been raised and now this.
Last one out, please turn out the lights.
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06-02-2011, 02:23 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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I know they have a labor problem with the grooms having to work 17 or 18 hour days on Fridays. I could be wrong but maybe that's the purpose of the $150.
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06-02-2011, 02:24 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: On The Bay
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Dave,
Please understand that the following comment is not directed at you, but at the fools running Cal racing:
"Since I have boycotted Cal racing for the last year,
I DON'T CARE"
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06-02-2011, 02:25 PM
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Racing Form Detective
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Lincoln, Ne but my heart is at Santa Anita
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Not only CA horsemen, but NJ horsemen also believe that world revolves around them too. It may be true of horsemen everywhere.
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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06-02-2011, 04:45 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: NJ
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Originally Posted by Robert Goren
Not only CA horsemen, but NJ horsemen also believe that world revolves around them too. It may be true of horsemen everywhere.
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We're glad to have you protesting both NJ and CA from Nebraska; great work on the trolling front.
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06-02-2011, 04:47 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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Gee, and I thought I was the center of the universe.
What a blow to my ego 
Regards,
Windoor
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06-02-2011, 05:03 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Reno, NV
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Yeah, but Goren IS right.
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06-03-2011, 11:34 AM
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Beyond the " is it right " discussion, there's another. If it's true, where is the money coming from ? Even if there are only 60 entered on the card, at $150 a pop that's 9 grand.
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06-03-2011, 12:35 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Reno, NV
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I am under the impression that it is $150 per trainer, not per entry.
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06-06-2011, 09:56 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 375
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Originally Posted by windoor
Gee, and I thought I was the center of the universe.
What a blow to my ego
Regards,
Windoor |
Good news, Windoor, you ARE the center of the universe!
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