Mostly, he wanted to know whether its future was bright. He was getting the sense it wasn’t, but he’d had too many different explanations thrown at him to understand exactly why not.
That right there was the problem, I told him. It wasn’t just the public concerns about racehorse safety. It wasn’t just integrity concerns about doping or the growing expense of drug testing, or the fact that testing, by its nature, is perpetually a step behind rule-breakers. It wasn’t just that racing is competing with new legal and illegal forms of wagering, or its long-standing inability/disinterest in attracting a new generation to that wagering, a struggle which has gone on so long now the most hopeful among us have given up on my generation and are focusing instead on Gen Z. It wasn’t only that the foal crop is shrinking and live racing is becoming less and less profitable as field sizes slowly contract, or that more and more wagering comes from computers instead of humans. It was all these things.
Paulick Report – Voss: A Farewell, And A Thank You To Readers
Phil M. Stockmen
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