Then the market will determine the future of horse racing. Kind of like it did with velodrome bike races.
My int was that when something occurs 60% of the time, you can’t quite claim it was thrown into disarray.
Side note, The Pimlico track where the Preakness is held is undergoing $250,000,000 in taxpayer funded renovations because all of us Marylanders care so deeply about horse racing.
Then, the Business Majors in government sold the rights a few weeks ago, but are still making taxpayers foot the bill.
Plus that, Pimlico is in a very bad area.
It will. And they clearly need to adapt.
And as I said the FACT that it’s happening so frequently lately IS throwing the racing world into disarray. This has been a growing issue for over a decade. The Triple Crown is apparently not as exciting for the horse owners as it is for network television. That’s a solid working definition of disarray. Imagine if you got to the end of the NFL season and a bunch of owners said “eh, we don’t really want to put our teams in the playoffs, too much hassle”. That’s where horse racing is finding itself.
But isn’t that what the Triple Crown is all about?
A singular horse-—a Derby winner’s stamina, endurance
and extraordinary ability to go the whole nine yards?
Typical of Maryland. The taxpayers pay for something and then the profits get privatized.