Re: Illinois Racing (628 Views)
Posted by:
P-Dub (IP Logged)
Date: July 06, 2015 05:24PM
We have discussed the problems with racing for a long time. While other sports/gambling have promoted themselves wisely, racing has done as bad a job as possible.
If they tried to do a worse job, they couldn't.
Daily Fantasy is taking more and more of the younger audience away from racing. If they were interested in the first place.
You guys know I work in a casino that offers poker. I deal poker 5 days a week, and these guys are always asking me if I play fantasy sports. Some of them are making pretty good money doing it too. I'm always being asked for roster suggestions. They often ask me what I did over the weekend. If I tell them I went to the track, it hardly registers. Few follow up questions or comments. Its as if I told them I mowed the lawn.
If I said I played poker, they will ask many questions. If its football season, the talk centers around betting and spreads. Baseball, basketball same thing. Constant talk about lines, totals, who do you like tonight, etc...
Racing? Yawn.
Its absolutely amazing to me how racing can't figure out how to market to this audience. These guys love to GAMBLE. Look at the late Pick 4 at Woodbine yesterday. Look at the Pick 3s in that sequence. There was a 52/1 shot in there, a 17/1. Massive payouts. The Pick 4 paid $92k.
We can't figure out a way to get people, that love to gamble, interested in that kind of money?
I love poker, football, baseball, etc.... and I love to gamble on all of it. My favorite? Horse racing, and its not even close. It has nothing to do with horseys running around the track, although I love to watch them run. Beautiful animals. Its about the gambling, pari mutuel style, where I get the chance to be better than the next guy.
I get so frustrated reading these threads. Reading about idiots like the NYRA clowns effing up Saratoga.
It takes a special kind of stupid where, in a nation that loves to gamble, we can't get people to gamble on horse racing.
I gotta go deal some poker. "Sure, go ahead and start Burnett, Padres can't hit much." I'm sure I'll say this to someone tonight.
P-Dub