Just recently I found out that the DRF early this year bought out Sports Eye. The latter had been, for a few years, putting out a past performance daily in competition with the DRF, and for $2.00 less. Exact same thing as the Form, but without the useless Beyers, and often a track or two more.
This paper, Daily Racing Advance, was sold all over the East Coast, and also in Vegas. They bought the pps from Equibase, just as the DRF now does. And as anyone else can.
Sports Eye also put out a lot of harness pps, and a preseason and weekly football dope sheet for handicappers. (They also once published a racing weekly, for which I was a "trackman" and sometimes columnist.) I believe the DRF bought all these in a package.
About 15 years ago the DRF beat back another competitor, I think called Racing Times. They love their monopoly, and charge way too much. I hate paying to read a bunch of bullshit "columnists."
Of course, years ago the racetracks themselves should have published the pps, and give them gratis to the paying customers. Then again, thorobred racetrack owners have for a century been among America's stupidest bipeds. That's why most of 'em now need slots to keep their lucrative gigs going.
I suspect that the Sports Eye entrepreneur, Jack something, getting up in age, deliberately went into competition with DRF, to force a lucrative buyout. Any other entrepreneur out there thinking along the same lines?
This paper, Daily Racing Advance, was sold all over the East Coast, and also in Vegas. They bought the pps from Equibase, just as the DRF now does. And as anyone else can.
Sports Eye also put out a lot of harness pps, and a preseason and weekly football dope sheet for handicappers. (They also once published a racing weekly, for which I was a "trackman" and sometimes columnist.) I believe the DRF bought all these in a package.
About 15 years ago the DRF beat back another competitor, I think called Racing Times. They love their monopoly, and charge way too much. I hate paying to read a bunch of bullshit "columnists."
Of course, years ago the racetracks themselves should have published the pps, and give them gratis to the paying customers. Then again, thorobred racetrack owners have for a century been among America's stupidest bipeds. That's why most of 'em now need slots to keep their lucrative gigs going.
I suspect that the Sports Eye entrepreneur, Jack something, getting up in age, deliberately went into competition with DRF, to force a lucrative buyout. Any other entrepreneur out there thinking along the same lines?
