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Originally Posted by racenomics

I went to Laurel park for the first time on Friday, it was a very nice, good sized facility, but it was just plain depressing.
The crowd was about what I expected, but no one there actually cared about watching the live races. It was just a bunch of people hunched in their carrels, watching the horses on the hundreds TVs, with no attention paid to the real live racing right outside the windows.
No visiting the paddock, no intent to enjoy the perks of actually being at live racing.
I went to Charles Town that night, and it was a slightly smaller crowd, and not as nice-but decent facility, but people actually paid attention to the live racing, looked at the horses in the paddock, got right on the rail to watch the horses thunder by. It was refreshing, and much more enjoyable.

When everyone at Laurel is complaining about how there is no more live racing, what am I gonna say? Use it or lose it, right?

This is not a new thing. I haven't been to Parx in 15 years and it was like that then. Unless you're at one of the few tracks that still has a lot of casual fans attending live, the hardcores are watching a bunch of different tracks. It's just the way it is.