Fairmount1 Wrote:
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> This is NYRA garbage again. Hopefully TGJB
> doesn't delete this one like a post last weekend
> that involved NYRA decisions.
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You posted about NYRA being unworthy of trust and the post got taken down? Is that right? I don't know the posts you are talking about, So, I cannot comment too much, but it would seem to me quite troubling from a consumer protection perspective IF you made a truthful fact based post warning bettors that NYRA is untrustworthy and beware and the post got taken down and, THEN, after that, Sunday Aug 6 happened.

Does anybody here know anything about HISA? It would seem to me that Congress should have made some consumer protection rules for the horse betting public. What NYRA did on Sunday August 6 should have been a violation of consumer protection laws.

It sickens me that NYRA took 15% out of that pool. It seems to me at a minimum they should offer a compensatory Pick 5 where they do not take anything out of the pool and they seed into the pool the 15% they took out of the tainted pool - and in the special compensatory bet, they should not allow CAW to participate in it.

Instead, they do not even admit or acknowledge, or even seem to know that they did something terribly wrong. That is the absolute worst because with that it means you can just expect more of the same and you have nobody to blame but yourself the next time you get burned like this.

As bad as what NYRA did was bad, it is far far worse that they do not make any sort of public acknowledgement that what they did was wrong. This is like a corollary to the cover up is worse than the crime. Here, the lack of ownership to the foul up is worse than the foul up. I suppose this is where the term SNAFU comes from, but, in the army, there is nothing a foot soldier can do. Here, we all have the choice on whether or not to trust the leadership. Can you imagine if the soldiers complaining about SNAFUs could choose to walk? They would be idiots not to and the army would not be able to survive. Why should NYRA be able to survive in this environment? The bettors will end up only having themselves to blame because they keep coming back for more. The only possible way to effect change would be through a demonstrative concerted action.

If there were enough outrage, a significant amount of NYRA Bets customers could agree on a particular large bet that they will only make the bet through other websites and not through NYRA Bets. The handle on the race would be unchanged nobody has to skip a bet they wanted to make, but the allocation of the betting among bet takers would be altered and hopefully a meaningful message could be sent. However, quite pessimistic this could be orchestrated and if it were tried and failed the consequences would be worse than not even trying. All I am doing is my own self-exclusion from NYRA Bets and doing all my betting on other websites instead.