P-Dub Wrote:
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> 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.

Good post P-Dub. I have friends that play daily fantasy and poker and sports in general. I got one very interested in racing last year. He loved it. He learned the game, etc. Then he took a deeper look at takeouts and quit the game completely after a few months. DFS, poker and sports are beatable. Racing...not so much.