Topic: Why is horse racing so unpopular here and a bit of extra feedback - page 11. (Read 2229 times)

Horse racing was cool back in the days but not anymore, I read online that the decline of such sport began in the year 2011, that's a very long time ago, it was already predicted that betting on horse racing would see a major decline, by now the horse race betting interest have already decline up to 30% if not more.

The sport have failed to keep up with other sports like volley, basketball, soccer, tennis and others, the truth is horse racing isn't modern type of gambling and the competition already outpace many attempts of horse racing bets companies.

We all love horse racing, in the 90s I prefer watching movies that have horses in them, that's why I get so much love for cowboy movies, Clint Eastwood for example, people like OP still believes that horse racing rocks, that's no lie, today,  many people believe that horse racing can be saved if bring into the modern age but sadly, many believe it's still too old fashioned, and this my friend is where I belong.  

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Seems like all three of us were wrong, 1mbtc is not enough!
I opened a prediction game in the games and rounds and I have a 0:50 views to participation conversion rate.

It's either that the sub-forum doesn't get that much exposure or 1 mbtc is not enough to pick six of names!
Or is everyone here too rich to take a chance for 1mbtc, we're all whales of betstreet here?

Nope, we can't compare horse racing with other animal sports because by default, horses are runners for life, that's what they do either by themselves or we make them do it, it would have been categorized as animal abuse if there is a horse fighting sport.

Also using any form of drug to improve the speed of horses can be considered an abuse too, but horses are born to race, it's in their nature, the thing with horse racing is that people just lose interest in them, they are old sport and no one want to leave Golf or Soccer for horse racing.

I won't say that horse racing is dying but lack of interest is increasing, in 2020 horse racing industry lost over five billions of dollars compare to past years, the popularity is declining.

Do you also know that horse racing also gained bad reputation for drug use? In 2021 the Derby Horse winner aka Medina Spirit was tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, the trainer was banned at the time, This form of abuse can be dealt with but the interest in this sport is the major problem.

Horse racing was cool back in the days but not anymore, I read online that the decline of such sport began in the year 2011, that's a very long time ago, it was already predicted that betting on horse racing would see a major decline, by now the horse race betting interest have already decline up to 30% if not more.

The sport have failed to keep up with other sports like volley, basketball, soccer, tennis and others, the truth is horse racing isn't modern type of gambling and the competition already outpace many attempts of horse racing bets companies.

We all love horse racing, in the 90s I prefer watching movies that have horses in them, that's why I get so much love for cowboy movies, Clint Eastwood for example, people like OP still believes that horse racing rocks, that's no lie, today,  many people believe that horse racing can be saved if bring into the modern age but sadly, many believe it's still too old fashioned, and this my friend is where I belong.  

Do you also know that horse racing also gained bad reputation for drug use? In 2021 the Derby Horse winner aka Medina Spirit was tested positive for performance enhancing drugs, the trainer was banned at the time, This form of abuse can be dealt with but the interest in this sport is the major problem.

Same with cock fighting and other gambling activities involving animals, lots of people are now aren't too comfortable supporting these gambling games. It's already considered animal abuse and I don't think that it would be fair that while we're enjoying, lots of animals are suffering. However, it's just a normal thing for the supporters of this game but if there were other gambling games or sports betting to enjoy, better pick them in my own opinion. Also, it's hard to analyze and have proper basis on where to be when it comes to horse racing because they're really unpredictable and be can also rely our decisions on the available data and statistics even if we do a deep research about their game history.

Things in the world have changed, and horses and horse racing are considered animal abuse because those who did these practices often did not even feed their animals well, they put hormones into them that made them change the normal balance of a horse so that they could give up, then these things as well as being hit, and they can do other types of things because they are not adequate according to the standards to be considered as animal abuse and as it is with betting, because things get worse, because Surely they review the conditions in which they have the horses and no, they determined that, like cockfighting, this is considered so.

Well it's quite obvious because these companies here are after market that sell in the gambling industry which I presume is soccer because soccer undoubtedly the most watch and loved sport in the world and moreover most people don't even have idea about how horse racing works. I have played horse race in my local casino and it's almost featured in all gamble site casino I know locally and its quite popular in my place and I believe that if these crypto casino focus more on this game it might get some attention by gamblers.

I agree with you, horse racing is one of the oldest traditional games in my region, and currently this game has become unpopular and that is the reason that a lot of other new games have surfaced on the internet and in physical casinos and this development has pushed horse racing to the background and making horse racing to just be a traditional game which is hosted mainly for festivities.

But then we are more likely to see new development in this game direction in time to come and for sure horse racing won't go into isolation as many perceive it to be since there is always room for improvement in this game at a later time.

I think this has something to do with mutualism of interest and culture. Not all countries are having place for horses which makes sense that it will have limited popularity. This is the same as with cockfighting and other gambling games which has an origin. The fact that most of us are familiar with traditional gambling games, then it would make sense for such games to have more players. Also with interest itself; we cannot control other players to play games we are playing 'coz we have different preferences. Some are into what's usual and some are not. For sure there are other gambling games which has a country of origin and are not recognized by us 'coz we have different culture and tradition in the first place.

Let's keep this as simple as possible and let's not shitpost!

I see thousands of posts about football, a few hundred about other sports, and the rest are just almost non-existent. I'm a gambler myself but I stopped a while ago betting on soccer, all the Nxx in American sports and I'm just betting now and then on horse racing, from one penny at a time to some larger sums in case of a grade 1 event or festival.
But here it seems like there is little interest in this, is that because horse racing is just unpopular or is it because, well,.... the casinos that sponsor most signatures here are not promoting it? So no post quota to make?   My old local gambling forum that covered this is also near death, I'm sitting in the sun 8 hours a day boring myself to death, so here comes feedback next part :

- Do you honestly think running a prediction game (run with my own funds) would attract genuine interest in this and not just shitposting quota?
- Would let's say 1-2 mbtc (per event, about one or two per month) be enough for people here to at least open a few links and take a look at what hoses are running and what their timeform is?
- Is anyone here actually gambling on horse racing?

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I'm genuinely curious, a lot have stated that horse racing is way too complicated, I made a free prediction game with the above-mentioned prize so, I really want a bit of feedback on what you considered to be "too complicated"?
I'm right now genuinely curious how people who deal with crypto, gambling, trading, TA and coldwallets can find betting on horse to be way too "complicated" So here you go:


I'm really really curious about this thing! It's turning into an obsession!

You seee, football has basically conquered the world's enthusiasm and it's almost becoming an impossibility to introduce a "new era sport" - well, that doesn't infer that horse racing is a new era sport - only that it was developed after the game of soccer.

That 1-2mbtc is enough to feed a family of 4 for 1 week or more(at least in my country), so it is probably worth enough to spend some time to take a look at what horses are running and what their time form is.

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What you'll be doing is something beneficial to the supporters or horse racing. I'm not sure whether people will be genuinely interested given that the only reason they will be joining is the prize money. It might force them to do a little bit of research and perhaps watch a few races, but after all is said and done, I don't know if they'll stick around.

I believe horse racing is only popular in some particular regions and countries and there are only a small percentage of people who actually like and follow the sport. I personally never had any interest in horse racing nor have I ever watched any matches or known any horses or people riding the horses, so I never really looked for any threads or any topics regarding the sport. However, I find your suggestions intriguing and I believe you might get a good response for that.

Basically, people will participate in competitions and events where they have an opportunity to get a reward for just spending their time and they don't need to spend anything from their pocket, especially if they are participating in something that they don't have a lot of knowledge about, in this case, it's horse racing.