Imagine instead a centralized system that synchronizes post times across the country, so a race goes off every couple of minutes and a first-time player can bet the next one from a single screen, with a single tap. One race resolves, then another, then another, the same rhythm that hooks a sportsbook customer, except every result is live horses coming down the lane. That is a stream no sportsbook can replicate. The unpredictable part has always been ours. All we have to build is the rhythm.
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Phil has a question:
Isn’t the real problem that horse racing cannot survive without a subsidy from slots.
Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.
Charles Koch
Phil M. Stockmen