NYRA Incompetence

[Fairmount1]

I have a feeling this one will be well received by our host!!  LOL

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Prior to today\'s card, NYRA had technical difficulties and couldn\'t get the show Talking Horses to air whatsoever!  

Race 1 was run at 5f.  But the condition book, the overnight, and the program all said 5.5 furlongs.  NYRA explains after the fact they go by the diagram in the program.  HILARIOUS.

Pick 6.  Oops.  2 races taken off the turf due to rain after that start of the pick 6 that no one could have ever seen coming . . . I mean unless you think standing on the train tracks with the train barreling down on you with horns blaring and lights ON means you should have seen and heard it coming. This resulted in a problem with the carryover by rule not being paid out and they couldn\'t within the pool correct the takeout from 24 percent to 15 percent.  So they put 21k into the pool to reduce the takeout to just under 15 percent to make it right.  

A few days ago, they had technical difficulties with the odds not being on the screen almost the entire day leading to conspiracy theories that Serling had to shoot down.  But the technical difficulty theme has to be concerning to the NYRA folks.  

Some Good News...well maybe.  They are being extra fan friendly at Saratoga for the Belmont Stakes.  They have decided your cash is No Good there to purchase anything.  You just won $1000 on Race 3 on Belmont Stakes Day and want to spend it on Drinks and Shake Shack for your pals.  Too bad.  Get out your debit, credit card or maybe they have the reverse ATM\'s on track.  Just the experience fans want as horse racing bettors.  And of course, I\'ve heard from nearly all the Saratoga guys I know from these parts of all the gouging techniques they have employed for those 4 days.  

You literally can\'t make this stuff up about how screwed up horse racing is these days.  YAY NYRA!!!  

miff would be typing clueless clown Emojis if he still posted in these parts LOLOL!!!

[toppled]

Ever since COVID many sports venues have gone cashless. As long as you know in advance, you can prepare. If I\'m going to an NFL or NBA game I make sure to get a prepaid debit card at the drug store. I don\'t know about Saratoga, but Met-Life has the reverse ATMs. I remember when I went to Saratoga last summer, the DRF sales were cashless.

[trackjohn]

Agree with the point that almost EVERY sporting and concert venue has gone \'cashless\'... BUT... This is a racetrack... Millions in cash will be exchanged at the betting windows over the 4 day meet... It\'s absolutely insane that you can\'t buy a drink at the Jim Dandy bar with cash...

[P-Dub]

I really don\'t understand the angst over this.

Virtually everyone has a CC or debit card.

I use my CC for EVERYTHING, accrue points to use for flights, pay the bill every month

Why do you care if its cash or credit??

[statuette]

P-Dub Wrote:
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> I really don\'t understand the angst over this.
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> Virtually everyone has a CC or debit card.
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> I use my CC for EVERYTHING, accrue points to use
> for flights, pay the bill every month
>
> Why do you care if its cash or credit??

I think if you left this on some other threads it would also apply..or to put it more bluntly “past meet present “

[Fairmount1]

Cash is a legitimate way to purchase things although businesses are free to choose what form of payment they will accept.  

But what is the point of not accepting cash?  What is the reason of shifting towards a cashless society?  I\'m not being difficult or a conspiracy theorist here.  I genuinely do not understand why cash is not a form of payment places want to accept. Especially when there are fees associated with processing the debit or credit payments they accept.  

I don\'t use a CC for everything.  I don\'t care about points or making a monthly payment from one account to another account to pay off a CC.  I use debit often obviously.  But I use cash as a way to differentiate my gambling/entertainment budget from other expenses.    

I will say young folks definitely aren\'t interested in cash and coins because many of them can\'t even count out correct change if their life depended on it.  True, this may be past meeting present (as stated by another poster) but I was taught you want to earn as much as you can running a business.  And refusing cash at a racetrack seems to limit how much can be earned.  

So, to answer your question (for anyone to answer) with a question as I asked above:  Why wouldn\'t you accept cash?

If there is some legitimate reason like safety (not an issue at Saratoga inside the gates), saves labor (using a card takes as long as as cash as a debit transaction reuires entering pin, pressing no cash back since that won\'t be a choice, and hitting the green button and waiting on technology), or employees are stealing the cash for themselves (I doubt this is a problem there as register has to match transactions at most places), then I\'m all ears.  But when the computers that run the CC and debit cards fail. . . and at NYRA (and elsewhere as I\'ve seen this happen) that\'s a real possibility I\'d say, then what?  

Sorry, Cash doesn\'t work either.

[P-Dub]

You can Google the reasons businesses use credit exclusively.

Credit cards can easily help you differentiate the various types of expenses you incur monthly.

If you don\'t care about getting points by using a CC, many others do.  I haven\'t paid for a flight in years.

I still have no idea why this is a major issue.

[toppled]

I don\'t like using my credit & debit cards at multi vendor places like sporting events, that\'s why I buy prepaid debit cards instead of using my own.  So I agree with you & prefer cash. However, you can\'t fight progress, and many places are going cashless. Fly lately? There are a lot of food vendors at the airports that no longer take cash.

[statuette]

I wish certain group of people( not talking about anyone here)would recognize the fact we can’t go back to the past no matter how much you want to

[kensharkey]

reason is theft