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You mean the same Rudy Giuliani that took down the mob? Dumb motherfucker got rid of the mob now look what you have… fucking soul city gone wild DUMMY! Aren’t you due to get back to Goshen peanut eater? Speaking of peanuts it’s too bad you never got to eat the peanuts out of Edita’s azzzz like you wanted too…
I am glad Gural took over the Meadowlands. Was his motive to make a profit? Absolutely. He's supposed to want that. I hoped from moment one he made a profit. Huge profits. Was another motive to get a casino? Absolutely. I am glad one of his motives was to get a casino. It's supposed to be one of his motives. I hope he gets it and I hope he's that casino is the only game in town for a substantial period of time. I hope he's wildly successful, beyond anyone's imagination. Why? Because he is the only owner/operator in the sport and in the industry that will allocate dollars back into the racing side of the business. Rooney didn't. Stronach for the most part didn't. Delaware North, Penn Gaming, and all the others didn't. What about the casino companies? Every single one of them, once they could decouple, they would be out of the racing business before you could even blink. I've made my living at the Meadowlands since they day they opened, owning horses and betting on them. For selfish reasons, I want to see Gural succeed. As a lifelong owner, and fan of the sport, and of the industry, I want to see Gural succeed. I only wish he was 30 years younger.Do I have any problem with
In compliance with the state purse subsidy agreement, the Meadowlands receives $6 million a year for overnight purses, only. Racing 92 days this year gives you about $65,000 a night on a common 14 race card. The 3.5 million in total wagering equates to about $92,000 a night . So, the overnight purses distributed on a 14 race card is about $11.500.00 a race. Now these figures don't include rebates of off track wagers. I have no clue as to what they may be. Accepting these figures as true or close to true, I don't doubt there are many Jeffery dollars in the purses. Be it overnights or stake races.
You are drastically under estimating how much of the handle gets rebatedover half of his handle is CAW -rebated at at least 8-10% or more
As I say , I have know idea what the rebate figures are. So, what do you believe is a more realistic figure for a bottom line % of off track handle to purses?
The Meadowlands Racetrack is the gold standard of harness racing and has always been. Thx to Jeff Gural for his incredible contribution to keep this Mecca facility in business.The show that this track puts on every fri and sat night is2nd to no others.Great live handicappers on set, horseman interviews in paddock.It will be a sad day for harness racing and its remaining fans when Jeff G decides to no longer support this amazing racetrack.Stop the hating and all the trying to figure out his motivations and start appreciating what the Meadowlands has always represented, simply the best, always has been.
Can you tell us how you know over half the handle is CAWs?Through all the comprehensive reporting in the thoroughbreds, nothing was found to be at that percentage, even considering the largest ones
look up how much DelMar and Santa Anita handle from Elite Turf Clubits more than half their handlethe entire industry is around 50% handle from CAWS--why would M1 be any different?