Keenland Sale

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More gloom and doom from Mr.Sunshine!!

National Handle continues it\'s downward spiral while the grandstanding Clueless Clowns running racing are still circle jerking about secondary issues.Can industry consolidation be far away?

Clueless NYRA down a whopping 8.4% overall handle on it\'s biggest Championship fall Saturday(bad weather in NY, short fields and economy must be considered though). Read Dan Silver, PR guy, NYRA site, he\'s either dilusional or spinning  figs for NYRA,insulting anyone with a brain.Word is NYRA limping to the wire,and in desperate need of infusion of slot money asap.Maybe more Latin Fiesta Days or Jamacia days the answer for NYRA.NYRA forget the Italians and the Jewish guys that make up lots of the NY crowd???


Below California early results,not good in spite of good cards. Give credit to Cali, at least they are trying some positive things to stem the tide of the disappearing gambler.


DRF:
ARCADIA, Calif - The first weekend of the six-week Santa Anita autumn meeting saw an average ontrack crowd of 9,842 and average all-sources handle of $8,395,174.

Saturday's 11-race program, which featured four Grade 1 races, drew an ontrack crowd of 16,013 who contributed to an overall handle of $11,678,920.

The track's president, George Haines, said Saturday's attendance figure "was on the low side of our ballpark" figure. He described the handle that day as "a little light."

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I can\'t speak to the economics of ownership since I am not involved in owning, breeding, or training, but I can speak as a bettor. I agree with what Jim is saying because the short fields of state claimers are just not where I want to invest my betting $. In contrast, look at the Gulfstream meet. It had large fields and was very successful. Even Tampa was successful with the large fields. I liked the experiment at Monmouth last year as well. I can see the smaller fields and cheaper horses succeeding under certain circumstances such as the summer fair circuits, but I don\'t want to go to Santa Anita or Belmont to see those kinds of poor fields. Doubly so when they are running on the synthetic surfaces.