"With these boobs in charge, it needs all the help it can get."Bill Finley does not mince words.
Some snippets in today's column:
Perhaps the single dumbest thing uttered by anyone in the horse racing industry in 2010 was the statement made by David Israel, the vice chairman of the CHRB, defending the takeout increase.
"People often say we're competing with the casinos," Israel said. "I think that's shortsighted and wrong. We're not competing with casinos. We're in the entertainment business. We're competing with the Dodgers and the Giants and the Angels and the Lakers, and we're putting on a show."
Apparently, the man was not joking.
and
No one is more deserving of a break than the people who bet on horses. They are what make everything in this sport go and they have had to put up with nothing but abuse, starting with takeout levels that make the game all but impossible to beat. Now they want to take even more money out of the Average Joe's pocket. This is criminal.
A broke horseplayer is not much of a customer. Racing needs help and it needs visionaries and people willing to do the right thing. In California, they're getting people who are falling back on the oldest trick in the book, a trick that never works.
More at 22.68 Reasons to Boycott California
2 comments:
Bill told track after track after track for about the last 25 years they have made a mistake. Once tracks (like several who are lowering juice) finally come aboard, California goes the other way.
Bill is right on. Dont bet a dime in those pools. If you do you should get "stupid" tattooed to your forehead.
I usually have a lot to say.
But this time I don't.
Except for....
Bill Finley rocks !
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