Looking Forward to Flat By Eric Mitchell

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Zenyatta John — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:59:59 GMT

We need a national commissioner who will stagger post times for simulcast players plus every track need to reduce racing dates.

We are breeding less and less horses and there are more hands than every trying to get their cut.

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Asst. Hotwalker — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:09:57 GMT

The day racing became an orphan to slots, was the day it signed it death warrant.

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LetItRideMike — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:50:44 GMT

To "the kid ", the challenge to just racing on the weekend is that, in addition to losing most. of your best staff because they need full time work, many of our best tracks are on land so valuable they really cant exist as a racetrack with the land sitting idle 8 months a year when they are not racing, and 4 days a week during the few months live racing is held there.

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LetItRideMike — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:42:54 GMT

I think the headline across from your blog reads "CALDER TO RACE YEAR ROUND" The Onion couldnt have done it any better than The Bloodhorse did, imo....

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Denmark — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:46:48 GMT

I am really worried about the "fight" going on in Florida. Having tracks compete daily is not a good thing. And, it will be tried in CA. What do you think?

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Bellwether — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:29:01 GMT

18,360...2012...A FREAK COME N OUTTA THAT CROWD...STAY TUNED...

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Byron Rogers — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:24:46 GMT

I'm not sure that the impeding foal reductions and the subsequent reduction in the available racing talent will see less race dates, rather less race tracks.

When the racehorse becomes a desired commodity for racetracks to survive, Owners and Trainers will start to make decisions about where they race at particular times of the year resulting in many racetracks just not having enough horses to sustain racing at all. They will put up the shutters and be sold for development most likely.

The hope is that this lack of racehorses actually makes racetracks co-operate with one another to survive on a national level. Rather than having graded stakes races run within a minute of one another, they might put 15 mins between them so wagers can be made. Rather than running graded stakes race under similar conditions a week apart, maybe racetracks will get together and create a national stakes schedule so that the best talent can turn up to their racetrack for their key races.

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The_Knight_Sky racing blog — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:29:12 GMT

Mr. Mitchell wrote:

>>>Then there is the still unanswered question of whether slot machines serve the best long-term interest of Thoroughbred racing.

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Slots machines only delayed the inevitable....

Attracting horse racing fans, educating them, and creating a larger segment of winning horse racing customers.

The wagered dollar will continue to be the key to horse racing's prosperity.

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Thekid — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:53:48 GMT

I agree with less race dates. Japan does it right, running only on the weekends. Less is indeed more, as demonstrated by Monmouth in 2010. Less race dates would get the public more excited, since you would have to wait for the weekend to see a race. Sounds crazy to some people in the U.S. but it works elsewhere, and we need to try SOMETHING. The status quo is not working.