Re: Racing Don't Need This! (667 Views)
Posted by:
Topcat (IP Logged)
Date: September 12, 2015 10:55AM
richiebee Wrote:
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> jerry Wrote:
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> > Not to mention they're considering closing the
> > track that has hosted the second leg of the
> triple
> > crown for the past 145 years but I guess that's
> > outisde of the stable core of very healthy
> > facilities you're referring to so everything is
> > fine.
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> You know Jerry I never thought of it that way.
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> Racing should follow a business model which has
> been successful in other
> industries, keeping an aged facility open based on
> tradition. Right.
Besides the obvious consideration of whether you want to permit Frank to throw money at the sounder prevailing facility with a lot more space in which to grow -- or throw TONS of money at the lesser structure, with its associated tradition. This decision is also fraught with MARKED political considerations, vis a vis the job base at and surrounding the Pimlico and Laurel facilities . . . it's a Gordian Knot, for sure.