How horse racing is declining.

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https://www.winchesterfeed.com/whats-behind-the-decline-in-horse-racings-popularity/

allen griggs

I remember when I was a kid in 1960, we were all fans of horse racing and boxing. We all talked about the Kentucky Derby, we knew who the top horses were. We were always pulling for a Triple Crown winner.

Same with boxing, we followed the heavyweight matches, also middleweight etc. Talked about it all the time.

Since then, both sports have fallen off the radar.

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allen griggs wrote:

I remember when I was a kid in 1960, we were all fans of horse racing and boxing. We all talked about the Kentucky Derby, we knew who the top horses were. We were always pulling for a Triple Crown winner.

Same with boxing, we followed the heavyweight matches, also middleweight etc. Talked about it all the time.

Since then, both sports have fallen off the radar.

+1

hillbille

used to put up with Howard Cosell just to see someone whip Ali, only reason I watched boxing was to see him lose, now looking back he was a good boxer, Cosell just full of hot air.........

yoshmyster

I like dogs better. When they retire you can adopt them. As for horses if they're not top performers end up on plates in France or French speaking Canada or eats for dogs.

spasmcreek

heard there was to much doping to max em out ???? great sport...get off yer high horse

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NASCAR may buy a few horse tracks and run dirt track .

bustedknee

Harness racing was a big deal when I was a kid. My dad used to take me to the county fairs all around us just to watch the races.
Several years ago I saw a sulky on the top of a horse trailer...in West Virginia.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harness_racing

jimdeere

Horse racing has been big in West Virginia for many years...
?Pari-Mutual wagering began in West Virginia in 1933, shortly after that the Charles Town Turf Club was opened in the town of the same name (not to be confused with Charlestown, the State Capitol) in the West Virginia panhandle near the Maryland and Virginia borders. Soon to follow in 1937, Wheeling Downs was opened on another small slice of West Virginia, between the Pennsylvania and Ohio borders. These would be the only tracks in operation till the nineteen fifties.

In 1951, about 50 miles north of Wheeling Downs, Waterford Park, opened in Chester, which was stuffed into the tiniest tip of the state at it's northern most border. Waterford Park, was and still is the only mile track in West Virginia, it is also the only one which has a turf course, and until there was an accident, had a landing strip in it's infield. The last track built in West Virginia, was Shenandoah Downs, it was located a stones throw from the Charles Town Turf Club in Charles Town, but at the time there was a reason for it. All the state's tracks continued racing into the seventies.

Wheeling Downs, which had abandoned thoroughbreds in favor of harness horses in the late sixties, was the first to discontinue horse racing in 1975. Today it is still in business as a dog track.?

Warbirds

I almost read the article, then I realized I simply don?t care.

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https://www.winchesterfeed.com/whats-behind-the-decline-in-horse-racings-popularity/

He Dog

Horse racing is declining? That is like saying wrestling is no longer real.

Smitty500mag

I think the decline in popularity of horse racing today is due to the fact that it's hard to keep a horse when you live in an apartment especially a second floor apartment and more people live in apartments today than ever before.

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T Rex Race

https://www.facebook.com/EmeraldDownsRacetrack/videos/593369857857615/?t=5