Mr X • 7 hours ago • edited
"Churchill could instead use its own dollars to subsidize those stakes races"

Lol...... horsepeople have to be the funniest people going. Essentially all I get from this is "hey, why dont all you people with money, spend it on our sport so we can keep making money. We wont get together as a group and buy this and run it our way, you all should spend your money to keep us afloat"

Its laughable how people are like "we should get casino revenue because they stole the gamblers from horse racing". Reality is.... people rather spend their money elsewhere and until your product is good enough to bring the fans back, you have to live with some places closing.

This is one of them. If horse racing was a cash cow, CDI would never bother with other forms of gambling revenue.

Clearly the people of Illinois rather blast huge bucks at the slots, than the horses (in many states this is the case) and the horsefolk seem to think they should be getting a cut or subsidized by these other forms of gambling. As a horse player of almost 35 years now...... Arlington's product isnt bettable. VERY small fields, tons of horses under even money on each card. I simply do not bother.

lines like this...... "Churchill is poised to make a fortune by operating sports betting in
Illinois – a form of wagering that, under the new gaming law, would
otherwise provide no benefit to purses." crack me up.

Why should horse racing get anything from sports betting? It isnt your product being used in the wager. Baseball isnt getting anything from people betting on its product, why should horse people?

This line can be translated from "It's past time for Churchill to act in good faith and genuinely promote the best interests of our sport and industry and our state's taxpayers. " to "do what we want with your money so we can keep racing"