Richie,

What would really be interesting to know is the AVG number of races per runner and how that changed. You simply cannot divide the two here. You would need the mean.

By the time this info was available, the commitment to winter racing in the Northeast was already was well underway. It would be more interesting to see what it was like back before all of the Northeast winter racing. With Simulcasting available to all, why dilute the quality of product,when clearly centralization is screaming out at this industry. the problem is there is no true governing body. Does the industry really need all of these race tracks?

The racing entities do not get together, like the NFL, does to optimize the profits for all.

Even if they consider themselves as competing entities, no one other than Keeneland is trying anything innovative and new (poly aside), and even then you get the anti change group screaming about that. A good percentage doesn't want change, but the industry has changed. They need to be run by people who know how to run businesses and not those people who are appointed by who they know or what family they were born into. They grossly underpay key personnel so they don't attract the best people they possible could to get the job done right.

I would like nothing more than to see this industry improve for the better. Better management would be a starting point.

NC Tony



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/28/2006 04:47PM by NoCarolinaTony.